In five pages the arguments of Searle and Turing are considered in an examination of each with support for Searle's position in the conclusion. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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own life as it tries to inoculate itself against a kill switch. A new film coming out in June of 2001 once again introduces the world to the idea of
artificial intelligence and is simply entitled "AI." Can man build robots that have human qualities? Can a persons intelligence live outside of his or her body? These and other questions
seem to plague man as he tries to find out who he is and why he is on the Earth in the first place. Yet, while the debates go on,
in the realm of artificial intelligence, there are two primary theorists whose works should be explored in honing in on the major debates about AI. Both Turing and Searle
have been theorists instrumental in determining the arguments on either side. Turing claims that it is possible for a machine to think where Searle argues against that supposition. It
all started in 1950 when British mathematician Alan Turing wrote a paper in the journal called Mind that argued that even asking whether or not a computer could think would
be a meaningless endeavor, but went on to propose an alternative (Allen 28). He developed a test to determine whether or not a computer could maintain a dialogue that could
convincingly pass for human (28). He further projected that in about fifty years, it would be possible to have computers play an imitation game so well that "an average interrogator
will not have more than 70 per cent chance of making the right identification after five minutes of questioning" (28). Scientists began to work on programs to hold ordinary conversations,
as Turing had suggested (28). Today, there are numerous practical applications that are sometimes considered to be artificial intelligence (Allen 28).