Mind and Machine

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Mind and Machine

• Using computers to understand how the mind works.

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Same or different?
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A brief history of AIPrehistory

• Automata
• Descartes Animals as machines

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Computing machines

• Da Vinci, Pascal, and Schickard
• Babbages Difference Engine
• and Analytical Engine

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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

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The Turing Test
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Passing grades?

• PARRY the Paranoid Robot
• Eliza http//www-ai.ijs.si/eliza-cgi-bin/eliza_sc
  ript
• Chat bots http//www.botspot.com/search/s-chat.ht
  m
• What about my cats?

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Information processing theory
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The symbol system hypothesis

• Successes
• Logic Theorist
• SHRDLU
• GPS
• MYCIN and other Expert Systems

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The birth of Cognitive Modeling
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Searles Chinese Room
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Does the Chinese Room hold water?
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Where is the burden of proof?
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Meaning and Understanding in symbol systems
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Computer programs as theories of mind