"Computing Machinery and Intelligence" Self-Quiz

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. Which of the following best describes the position of Strong AI?

An appropriately programmed computer is a mind, in the sense that it can understand correct incorrect

Computers cannot be minds correct incorrect

Having a mind is a matter of having the right outputs correct incorrect

The principal value of computers is that they are powerful tools for studying the mind correct incorrect

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. What is Searle's "Chinese room" thought experiment supposed to show?

That computers aren't yet able to simulate the human ability to understand correct incorrect

That no machine can demonstrate genuine understanding correct incorrect

That it is only possible for systems to demonstrate understanding correct incorrect

That understanding involves more than the ability to formally reproduce appropriate outputs correct incorrect

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. Which of the following best describes the "systems reply" to Searle's thought experiment?

We only attribute understanding to people because of their behavior, so we should for machines too correct incorrect

While the individual in the room doesn't understand the story, the system she's a part of does correct incorrect

There would be understanding if we put the system into a mechanism that walked around, perceiving correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. Why, according to Searle, is the "brain simulator reply" an odd reply to Searle's thought experiment?

Because for Strong AI, we don't have to know how the brain works to know how the mind works correct incorrect

Because once a brain is simulated, we no longer have a machine; we have a person correct incorrect

Because it actually supports Weak AI correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. According to Searle, intentional states are defined in terms of . . .

Their form. correct incorrect

Their syntax. correct incorrect

Their similarity to human mental states. correct incorrect

Their content. correct incorrect

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. Searle denies that Schenk's program genuinely understands stories.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. For Searle, we need to use different senses of understanding, and so while computer programs can be said to understand in a certain sense, they don't understand in the strong sense that humans do.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Searle argues that the Turing test is an invalid way to determine whether something shows understanding.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect