Category Archives: Turing Test

LM101-045: How to Build a Deep Learning Machine for Answering Questions about Images

A robot describing an image of a dog and a toy in answer to a question.

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LM101-045: How to Build a Deep Learning Machine for Answering Questions about Images Episode Summary: This is the fourth of a short subsequence of podcasts which provides a summary of events associated with Dr. Golden’s recent visit to the 2015 Neural Information Processing Systems Conference. This is one of the top conferences in the field of Machine Learning. This… Read More »

LM101-018 (Rerun): Can computers think? A mathematician’s response (Super Turing Computation)

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Episode Summary: In this episode, we explore the question of what can computers do as well as what computers can’t do using the Turing Machine argument. Specifically, we discuss the computational limits of computers and raise the question of whether such limits pertain to biological brains and other non-standard computing machines. (NOTE: This is a rerun of Episode… Read More »

LM101-017 (rerun): How to Decide if a Machine is Artificially Intelligent (The Turing Test)

Robot and human participating in the Turing Test.

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Episode Summary: In this rerun of episode 5 we discuss the Turing Test for Artificial Intelligence which is designed to determine if the behavior of a computer is indistinguishable from the behavior of a thinking human being. The chatbot A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) is interviewed and basic concepts of AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) are introduced. Show… Read More »

LM101-006: How to Interpret Turing Test Results

Searle's Chinese Room argument against the validity of the Turing Test.

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Episode Summary: In this episode, we briefly review the concept of the Turing Test for Artificial Intelligence (AI) which states that if a computer’s behavior is indistinguishable from that of the behavior of a thinking human being, then the computer should be called “artificially intelligent”. Some objections to this definition of artificial intelligence are introduced and discussed. At… Read More »

LM101-005: How to Decide if a Machine is Artificially Intelligent (The Turing Test)

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Episode Summary: This episode we discuss the Turing Test for Artificial Intelligence which is designed to determine if the behavior of a computer is indistinguishable from the behavior of a thinking human being. The chatbot A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) is interviewed and basic concepts of AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) are introduced. Show Notes: Hello everyone!… Read More »

LM101-004: Can computers think? A mathematician’s response

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LM101-001: Welcome to the Big Artificial Intelligence Magic Show!

Artificial Intelligence is like a magic show.

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LM101-001: Welcome to the Big Artificial Intelligence Magic Show! Episode Summary: This episode discusses the similarities between designing an android that can command a starship and designing an android that can play a game of checkers. In addition, the mystery underlying both artificial intelligence and biological intelligence is discussed. Show Notes: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field of… Read More »