Discussion Question

Is the turing test a valid test of intellegence? Why or why not?

1.) I do not think that the turing test is a valid way to determine whether someone is intellegent because there are many different aspects that lead up to something like that. For example you cant just give someone a few questions and according to that you decide whether or not they are intellegence. Deciding something like that would take many years. You cant compare a human to a machine. they are both completely different and therefore cant be jugded the same. it just wouldnt be fair. I think that this test should not be a predictor of a humans intellegence but instead a person should just be used in order to determine the computers level of intellegence.
2.) List several mental tasks that people do better than computers. List several mental tasks that computers do better than people. Can you find any general characteristcs that distinguish the items of the two lists.
Computers:
- Computers are usually more accurate in mathmatics.
- More organization.
Humans:
-They are much more reliable than computers.
- Humans are more intellectual thinkers than computers are.