[Alta-Logic] Turing and Intelligent Machines (Nicole Wyatt, December 4)

[Richard Zach]

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2012 marks the centenary of Alan Turing, mathematical genius, WWII
codebreaker, pioneer of computing, and gay icon. The Departments of
Computer Science and Philosophy with support from the Faculties of Arts
and Science as well as the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical
Sciences are hosting a series of events honouring Turing's life and work
throughout 2012.

http://ucalgary.ca/turing
http://facebook.com/TuringYYC

Next and Final Event:

*** Turing and Intelligent Machines  ***

Nicole Wyatt
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Calgary

Tuesday, December 4, 4-5:30 pm, ICT 121
http://ucalgary.ca/turing/node/32


Turing's interest in the possibility of machine intelligence is probably 
most familiar in the form of the 'Turing Test', a version of which has 
been instantiated since 1991 as the Loebner Prize in Artificial 
Intelligence. To this date the Loebner Gold Medal has not been won. But 
should any future winner of the prize count themselves as having created 
a computer that thinks? Turing's 1950 Mind paper 'Computing Machinery 
and Intelligence', gives a sustained defence of the claim that a machine 
able to pass the test, which Turing called the Imitation Game, would 
indeed qualify as thinking. This lecture will explain the Turing Test as 
well as Turing's more general views concerning the prospects for 
artificial intelligence and examine both the criticisms of the test and 
Turing's rebuttals.

Poster:
http://ucalgary.ca/turing/node/35
http://ucalgary.ca/turing/files/turing/aty2012wyatt.pdf


*** Watch previous lectures in this series on Mathtube ***

http://mathtube.org/conference/lecture_video/Alan%20Turing%20Year

Listen to the CJSW Presents feature on Alan Turing:

http://cjsw.com/program/cjsw-presents/alan-turing-episode-1/
http://cjsw.com/program/cjsw-presents/turing-episode-2/