Computing Machinery and Intelligence – Alan Turing

Page 14: Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind. why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain. Presumably the child-brain is something like a notebook as one buys it from the stationers

Following project is a working prototype, exactly in sync with Turing’s proposed methodology for constructing machines that could learn.

BabyX is an experimental computer generated psychobiological simulation of an infant which learns and interacts in real time:

Q As we are aware of the development in the area of machine learning it is not hard to visualize intelligent machines, deriving patterns from past records/experiences and resulting in optimum outcomes for the problem on hand, the question is, is intelligence in this sense equivalent to thinking?

Q Will machines that learn from humans, be a reflection of humans, imitating an aspect of human behavior? If yes, what aspect and what would be some implications of existence of such machines?

Q ‘Medium is the message’ – Marshall McLuhan. What is the message that these machines as mediums/interfaces bring forth? What could be the methodologies to investigate the effect of these mediums on society?

Q From a solipsist point of view, if machines think, will machines think of themselves as humans or superior to humans?