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Consciousness is in the eye of the beholder
Alan Turing was a pioneer in the field of computer science. One of the things he is famous for is the Turing test. At its core, this is a test about whether or not a machine, a computer, can convince...
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Artificial intelligence is what we can do that computers can’t…yet
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) I think I’ve mentioned before that I listen to a number of different podcasts. One of them is Writing Excuses, a podcast about writing science fiction. One of the recent...
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What does the Turing Test really mean?
The “standard interpretation” of the Turing Test, in which player C, the interrogator, is tasked with trying to determine which player – A or B – is a computer and which is a human. The interrogator is...
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SMBC: Surpassing the Turing test in order to assess moral standing
Click through to see the full sized version. via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Tagged: Alan Turing, Animal cognition, Animal intelligence, Artificial intelligence, Eugene Goostman, Intelligence,...
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Emotional versus intellectual attributions of consciousness
Click through for full sized version and the red button caption. via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. This SMBC reminds me of a concept that I’ve been debating on ways to express, but a brief...
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The problems with philosophical zombies
In any online conversation about consciousness, sooner or later someone is going to bring up philosophical zombies as an argument for consciousness being non-physical, or at least some portion of it....
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