SCO 113 – Foundations of Artificial Intelligence : COMPUTER SCIENCE

Given this scenario different interpretations have been used by different researchers as defining the scope and view of Artificial Intelligence. 1. One view is that artificial intelligence is about designing systems that are as intelligent as humans.  This view involves trying to understand human thought and an effort to build machines that emulate the human thought process.  This view is the cognitive science approach to AI. 2. The second approach is best embodied by the concept of the Turing Test.  Turing held that in future computers can be programmed to acquire abilities rivaling human intelligence.  As part of his argument Turing put forward the idea of an 'imitation game', in which a human being and a computer would be interrogated under conditions where the interrogator would not know which was which, the communication being entirely by textual messages.  Turing argued that if the interrogator could not distinguish them by questioning, then it would be unreasonable not to call the computer intelligent. Turing's 'imitation game' is now usually called 'the Turing test' for intelligence.