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Mind and Machine

Journey through AI history, from automata to Turing Test to Searle's Chinese Room, analyzing symbolic systems and computer cognition's theories.

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Mind and Machine

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  1. Mind and Machine Using computers to understand how the mind works.

  2. Same or different?

  3. A brief history of AI:Prehistory • Automata • Descartes: Animals as machines

  4. Computing machines • Da Vinci, Pascal, and Schickard • Babbage’s Difference Engine and Analytical Engine

  5. The First breakthrough • The Analytical Engine was the first stored program computer. • Such a computer has a set of basic instructions used in different sequences to perform calculations. • Complex calculations can be built from simple instructions

  6. The Turing Test

  7. Passing grades? • PARRY the Paranoid Robot • Eliza: http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza-cgi-bin/eliza_script • Chat bots: http://www.botspot.com/search/s-chat.htm • What about my cats?

  8. Information processing theory

  9. The symbol system hypothesis • Successes: • Logic Theorist • SHRDLU • GPS • MYCIN and other Expert Systems

  10. The birth of Cognitive Modeling

  11. Searle’s Chinese Room

  12. Does the Chinese Room hold water?

  13. Where is the burden of proof?

  14. Meaning and Understanding in symbol systems

  15. Computer programs as theories of mind

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