This document discusses various topics related to artificial intelligence including the Turing test, the Chinese room experiment, limitations of AI, and examples of AI systems like Watson and ASIMO. It also examines philosophical issues around machine intelligence and whether robots could obtain feelings or free will.

1. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
JOHN PESCO
ALEX MOORE
TRAVIS PARSONS

2. CAN MACHINES THINK?
Hollywood would make
us think that they can!
Can anyone name some
famous robots?

3. Robot- (n.) a
machine capable of
carrying out a
complex series of
actions
automatically,
especially one
programmable by a
computer.

4. ALAN TURING: THE (L)IMITATION GAME
(1912-1954)
Invented the Turing Test to identify
intelligence in machines.
Emotions can’t be interpreted with
mathematics.

5. THE TURING TEST, WHEN WON’T WE RECOGNIZE AI?
• AI imitates our
responses fluently
• AI has freewill to
deviate from set
instructions.
From Blade Runner

6. JOHN SEARLE: GANGING UP ON THE IVY LEAGUE
(1932-)
Proposed the Chinese room experiment.
Intentionality is biological, not mechanical.
-“Whatever it is that the brain does to produce
intentionality, it cannot consist in instantiating a
program since no program, by itself, is sufficient
for intentionality.”

7. CHINESE ROOM VS THE MATRIX
Neo is in the locked
room now.
He may be a kung-fu
master, but only
when plugged into
the Matrix.
He needs a program
with specific
instructions in order
to interpret what all
of it means. (The
Matrix)

8. PUSH IT TO THE LIMIT
• Power restrictions
• Physical restrictions
• Mathematics as a limiting
factor
Quick processing and
controlling motion in machines
requires lots of power, and the
materials used have certain
limits when introduced to
electricity or other forms of
energy.

9. FINDING NEW POWER SOURCES?
The matrix
depicts that
each of us are
living in a
dream-state,
and machines
are harvesting
us for the small
amounts of
electricity
available in our
bodies.
The human
body only
produces 10 to
100 millivolts.
Biological power
sources are a
reality. But the
amount of power
produced isn’t
enough to power
the demand of any
complicated
machine.

10. WATSON, THE Q/A MASTER
• Information came from specialized database’s storing
information in the physical RAM(random access memory).
• Specialized software that recognizes key phrases and words
typically present in questions.
• Used a 16 terabytes of RAM instead of standard hard
drives for quicker access
• Utilized 90 processors with each processor having 32
processing cores (2880)

11. THE LITTLE HONDA THAT COULD
• ASIMO- Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility.
• 51.8 volt battery that lasts only 1 hour and weighs 13
pounds.
• 110 lbs. total.
• 57 Degrees of motions. 38 of which are in the hands
and ankles.
• Capable grip strength of a meager .5kg.

12. SENTIENT BEINGS, WHEN ROBOTS HAVE FEELINGS

13. ASIMOV’S LAWS OF ROBOTICS (NOT ACTUAL LAWS)
• These are still programmed rules
designed for fiction.
• Military robots are designed to
kill you.
• There are no real safeguards.
• Robots take our jobs. That hurts
us. Goes against first law.
1. A robot may not injure a human being or,
through inaction, allow a human being to come to
harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by
human beings, except where such orders would
conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long
as such protection does not conflict with the First
or Second Law.

14. QUICK, PULL THE PLUG! MY TOASTER IS TRYING TO
KILL ME!
What will happen
if robots obtain
freewill?
Freedom can’t be
programmed into
a computer
language.
Robots don’t
make decisions,
they follow
programmed
algorithms.

15. THE ETHICS INVOLVED
Is it ethical to even try to build
a piece of technology so
advanced that it can
completely represent
ourselves and the decisions
we make?
What can we gain from being
able to control a robot in such
a way that it acts as our
avatar?