Discussion Question 4/27

1- Is the Turing test a valid test of intelligence? Why or why not?
No it does not because machines cannot think. The answers machines give can be constructed by retrieving information stored by humans.The machine would only imitate, but not really think on its own accord. The Turing test just shows how a computer can imitate human intelligence.


2- List several mental tasks that people do better than computers. List several mental tasks that computers do better than people. Can you find any general characteristics that distinguish the items on the two lists?
Computers have greater accuracy of answering mathematical formulas,questions, problems... than human because it requires proven, factual, logical answers quicker and more efficient than a human.
Humans can think.
Humans can hold emotions. 
The difference between their abilities is that humans have a more intellectual tasks that allow them not to only give out facts, like computers do, but to reason and analyze, tasks computers cannot perform.