Running head: Are Computers Intelligent?

Are Computers Intelligent?

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In a Turing test, questioner sits behind a divider, and questions unobserved

entity by typing. The entity can be a human responding in text format, if examiner

cannot distinguish a human response from a computer responding like human, the

computer passes the Turing test. Is this, however, a test of intelligence, or is this a

superficial imitation of game? In my opinion test for intelligence is not required

to pass test. In a way a system can surpass human, it doesn’t mean that machine

have the same consciousness as human experience.

In a way, human and computer memory are the same, let take a general

example of how short-term memory of a human resemble those of computers

random access memory. Short term memory of a human is unstable and have less

capacity. Computer RAM have the same features, and frequently don’t have

enough memory to run certain programs, and when you turn it off data get lost.

Similarly, long-term memory of a human is just like hard drive in a computer, both

take time to respond to a command, but can store sizeable quantity of data.

Human and computer memory do have some differences, in a computer each

piece of information is stored in a specific location in a hard drive, even though

files may break in some part when first stored, while in one of your memories it

involves activity of a certain neurons, you can just get it by switching on just a

portion of the network of a neuron where it is encoded.

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Do you think it’s possible for computers to ever think? No, computers can

be programmed with a lot of data, but they can’t experience life the way we do as

human. Humans are still superior than computers in many ways, we make

decisions and solve problems based our massively processing wetware and not our

intelligence, in what we can call common sense, instinct and mostly our life

experiences. A person can compose songs and sing or dream of an invention,

computers can just be programmed to duplicate some of the tasks, computers don’t

have posse’s ability to create new way as humans do.

As a society there some ethical questions we need to ask ourselves on this

topic of Turing tests, let say there are machine passing the tests by coping, is it a

respectable than to produce devices that scheme people opinions, and purpose to

them? Are we as society promote interactions with things that tricks us to put down

our intelligence to them. scheme systems are unethical since they project identity

about themselves and it is not the reality.

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