Views
Graph
Explorer
Focus
Down
Load 1 level
Load 2 levels
Load 3 levels
Load 4 levels
Load all levels
All
Dagre
Focus
Down
Load 1 level
Load 2 levels
Load 3 levels
Load 4 level
Load all levels
All
Tree
SpaceTree
Focus
Expanding
Load 1 level
Load 2 levels
Load 3 levels
Down
All
Down
Radial
Focus
Expanding
Load 1 level
Load 2 levels
Load 3 levels
Down
All
Down
Box
Focus
Expanding
Down
Up
All
Down
Page ✓
Article
Outline
Document
Down
All
Canvas
Time
Timeline
Calendar
Request email digest
Past 24 hours
Past 2 days
Past 3 days
Past week
Add
Add page
Add comment
Add citation
Edit
Edit page
Delete page
Share
Link
Bookmark
Embed
Social media
Login
Member login
Register now for a free account
🔎
Computers can't make mistakes
SupportiveArgument
1
#211
Computers differ from humans in that humans can make mistakes, whereas computers can't. Computers are easily unmasked in the Turing Test because humans frequently make mistakes in complex arithmetic whereas computers never do.
91
Argument anticipated by Alan Turing (1950).
Note
: for more on the Turing Test see Map 2.
CONTEXT
(Help)
-
Artificial Intelligence »
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence☜A collaboratively editable version of Robert Horns brilliant and pioneering debate map Can Computers Think?—exploring 50 years of philosophical argument about the possibility of computer thought.☜F1CEB7
▲
Can computers think? [1] »
Can computers think? [1]
Can computers think? [1]☜Can a computational system possess all important elements of human thinking or understanding? ☜FFB597
▲
No: computers are inherently disabled »
No: computers are inherently disabled
No: computers are inherently disabled ☜Machines can never do X, where X is any variety of abilities that are regarded as distinctly human—e.g. being friendly, having a sense of humour, making mistakes, or thinking about oneself. ☜59C6EF
■
Computers can't make mistakes
Computers can't make mistakes☜Computers differ from humans in that humans can make mistakes, whereas computers cant. Computers are easily unmasked in the Turing Test because humans frequently make mistakes in complex arithmetic whereas computers never do.☜98CE71
●
Computers can make certain types of mistakes »
Computers can make certain types of mistakes
Computers can make certain types of mistakes☜Machines cant commit errors of functioning—arising from physical construction—if they are properly constructed. But can commit errors of conclusion—arising from the reasoning process—eg by making faulty inferences based on inadequate information.☜EF597B
●
Teach them to fail »
Teach them to fail
Teach them to fail☜One can always teach the program to fail. Have it confuse addition and multiplication facts for each other. Or make it a lazy computer that doesnt want to do any math that a 3rd grader couldnt do. I find thatNo I dont want to bother. is a very human response to just about anything.☜EF597B
►
Can the Turing Test determine this? [2] »
Can the Turing Test determine this? [2]
Can the Turing Test determine this? [2] ☜Is the Turing Test—proposed by Alan Turing in 1950—an adequate test of thinking? Can it determine whether a machine can think? If a computer passess the test by persuading judges via a teletyped conversation that its human can it be said to think?☜FFFACD
Heading
Summary
Click the button to enter task scheduling information
Open
Details
Enter task details
Message text
Select assignee(s)
Due date (click calendar)
RadDatePicker
RadDatePicker
Open the calendar popup.
Calendar
Title and navigation
Title and navigation
<<
<
November 2024
>
<<
November 2024
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
44
27
28
29
30
31
1
2
45
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
46
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
47
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
48
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
49
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Reminder
No reminder
1 day before due
2 days before due
3 days before due
1 week before due
Ready to post
Copy to text
Enter
Cancel
Task assignment(s) have been emailed and cannot now be altered
Lock
Cancel
Save
Comment graphing options
Choose comments:
Comment only
Whole thread
All comments
Choose location:
To a new map
To this map
New map options
Select map ontology
Options
Standard (default) ontology
College debate ontology
Hypothesis ontology
Influence diagram ontology
Story ontology
Graph to private map
Cancel
Proceed
+Comments (
0
)
- Comments
Add a comment
Newest first
Oldest first
Show threads
+Citations (
0
)
- Citations
Add new citation
List by:
Citerank
Map
+About
- About
Entered by:-
David Price
NodeID:
#211
Node type:
SupportiveArgument
Entry date (GMT):
6/6/2006 9:02:00 PM
Last edit date (GMT):
11/18/2007 4:36:00 PM
Show other editors
Incoming cross-relations:
0
Outgoing cross-relations:
1
Average rating:
4
by
2
users
x
Select file to upload