The “Turing test”
A test proposed to determine if a computer has the ability
to think. In 1950, Alan Turing (Turing, 1950) proposed a method for determining
if machines can think. This method is known as The Turing Test.
The test is conducted with two people and a machine. One
person plays the role of an interrogator and is in a separate room from the
machine and the other person. The interrogator only knows the person and
machine as A and B. The interrogator does not know which the person is and which
the machine is.
Using a teletype, the interrogator, can ask A and B any question he/she wishes. The aim of the interrogator is to determine which the person is and which the machine is.
The aim of the machine is to fool the interrogator into thinking that it is a person. If the machine succeeds then we can conclude that machines can think.
Using a teletype, the interrogator, can ask A and B any question he/she wishes. The aim of the interrogator is to determine which the person is and which the machine is.
The aim of the machine is to fool the interrogator into thinking that it is a person. If the machine succeeds then we can conclude that machines can think.
Vacuum Tube – 1904
A vacuum tube is just that: a glass tube surrounding a
vacuum (an area from which all gases has been removed). What makes it
interesting is that when electrical contacts are put on the ends, you can get a
current to flow though that vacuum.
A British scientist named John A. Fleming made a vacuum tube
known today as a diode. Then the diode was known as a "valve,"
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