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"Computing Machinery and Intelligence" Self-Quiz
A. M. Turing
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What question does Turing propose instead of Can machines think?
Are there imaginable digital computers that would do well in an imitation game?
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Could a machine ever think?
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What is thinking?
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What does it mean for a machine to think?
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Which of the following is a restriction Turing puts on his game?
The only thinking machines allowed to take part are digital computers
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The interrogator can only ask five questions
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The engineers must be able to describe how the machine works
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None of the above
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According to Turing, what is the idea behind computers?
To stimulate our minds by offering various digital tasks
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Turing explicitly states that there is no idea behind computers
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To be able to carry out any operations that could be done by a human computer
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To improve the world by allowing us to more efficiently accomplish various tasks
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Turing holds that . . .
A computer will never be able to regularly win the imitation game
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Eventually, there will be no difference between a machine and a human
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Eventually, there will be computers that regularly win the imitation game
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At best, computers will be able to win the imitation game half the time
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Why does Turing ultimately reject the mathematical objection?
Machines are capable of learning
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Even if machines are limited, so are humans
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It relies on a kind of solipsistic view
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He doesnt reject the mathematical objection
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Turing proposes an imitation game to think about the possibility that machines might be able to think.
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Turing restricts the imitation game to digital computers.
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Lady Lovelace first proposed the idea of learning machines, which could pass the imitation game.
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