Machines as Persons

Question 1

Arguments for: Explain the Turing test.

Answer 1

Created by Alan Turing. it was designed to discover if machines could be minded and pass as a human.

Question 2

Arguments for: What was PARRY?

Answer 2

A program developed by Kenneth Colby to try and successfully pass the Turing test. It portrayed a Paranoid patient who was convinced the mafia were after him.

Question 3

Arguments Against: What was Dennet’s criticism of the Turing test?

Answer 3

It wasn’t sufficient to test weather or not a machine was as complex as human. Machines also nearly always faulted on emotional questions.

Question 4

Arguments Against: What was Dennet’s criticism of PARRY?

Answer 4

PARRY was only successful because he was a paranoid patient, meaning any answers that would have normally seemed odd, were taken as normal. I.E. response to emotional questions.

Question 5

Arguments Against: The problem of Qualia.

Answer 5

Machines lack qaulia; the raw feel and qualitative understanding of a feeling.

Question 6

Arguments Against: The problem of Internationality.

Answer 6

Machines do not know what they are doing, they are only doing it because they are programmed to. Chinese room.