In order to simplify the terminology used in this discussion, I will refer to

the Turing Test and Chinese Room Argument individually as “investigations”.

The Turing Test and Searle’s Chinese Room Argument are both investigations

and/or explorations into the so-called mind of a computer machine. The main

question that arises from both of these investigations, is “Can machines think?”

Do they have human-like intelligence? And If so, how is this similar or

different to human thinking? Can it be regarded as the same? The answer/s to

these questions have many implications for the study Artificial Intelligence

To avoid confusion in my discussions, I have decided to discuss the Turing Test

separately from Searle’s Chinese Room Argument.

To begin a discussion relating to these two investigations, a very clear

The Turing test, Turing's attempt to capture the notion of artificial

The accepted definition of artificial intelligence, put forth by John McCarthy

socially constructed versus physical realities.

another way, the human mind is a computer (of a sort) running a program.

the cover of LIFE magazine, or maybe Harper's Bazaar.

follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with two other

In 1990 Hugh Loebner agreed with The Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies to

in 1955: "making a machine behave in ways that would be called intelligent if a

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