Harmen Mander | What Is Artificial Intelligence?
Harmen Mander | I recently read an interesting article about Artificial Intelligence(AI) on Ars Technica, titled Brute force or intelligence? The slow rise of computer chess. It posed the question, "What is AI?" Can AI be gained through raw computing power (brute force) or is it something else? You don't have to wait to get to the end of this post to find out: it's something else. The most well known test for AI is the Turing Test, originally described by Alan Turing in 1950 as a way of answering the question, "Can machine's think?" The basic idea is that a human interrogator would ask questions to two players, one being a machine and the other being a human. The interrogator would then have to make the determination as to which player is the human and which is the machine. Turing proposed that a machine could be said to think if that the machine could imitate a human to the point where an interrogator could not reasonably distinguish it from a human ba...