The reading passage is about the Turing Test that was established by Alan Turing to determin if a computer can think. While the listening passage provides reasons to cast doubts on the mentioned test.
First of all, the professor in the lecture argues that a chinese room experiment, where by a chinese person woould ask questions to an english person, who in turn would know how to give right answers without even understanding the questions, is considered a challenge for the Tutoring Test that is mentioned in the reading passage, which allow interaction between a person and another one or a computer in seperate rooms where by one person would be asking questions to either a computer or another person, and in case the person would not be able to distinguish if he is dealing with a computer or another person, this would mean that a computer can think.
Secondly, according to the professor, a person could answer all the asked chinese questions if he is able to access large amount of detailed references, without even understanding. Which refutes the concept that is mentioned in the reading passage of how a computer can be determined to actually think, according to the criterea of the Tutoring Test
Eventually, the professor adds that computers can be implemented with complex input but they would be never able to think as claimed in the reading passage.
The
reading
passage
is about the Turing
Test
that
was established
by Alan Turing to
determin
if a computer can
think
.
While
the listening
passage
provides reasons to cast doubts on the mentioned
test
.
First of all
, the professor in the lecture argues that a
chinese
room experiment,
where by
a
chinese
person
woould
ask
questions
to an
english
person
, who in turn would know how to give right answers without even understanding the
questions
,
is considered
a challenge for the Tutoring
Test
that
is mentioned
in the
reading
passage
, which
allow
interaction between a
person
and another one or a computer in
seperate
rooms
where by
one
person
would be asking
questions
to either a computer or another
person
, and in case the
person
would not be able to distinguish if he is dealing with a computer or another
person
, this would mean that a computer can
think
.
Secondly
, according to the professor, a
person
could answer all the asked
chinese
questions
if he is able to access large amount of detailed references, without even understanding. Which refutes the concept that
is mentioned
in the
reading
passage
of how a computer can
be determined
to actually
think
, according to the
criterea
of the Tutoring
Test
Eventually
, the professor
adds
that computers can
be implemented
with complex input
but
they would be never able to
think
as claimed in the
reading
passage
.