Bilkent ACM SIGART (Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence)

Seminar entitled

Abstract: The famous mathematician and co-founder of computer science Alan Turing has proposed a test for deciding if a given computer program can "think" or not. In his test, a human interrogator communicates with two subjects (a human and a computer) via a teletype in order to decide which is which. Both subjects try to convince him that they are the human. The computer program passes the test if at the end the interrogator fails to make a decision or decides wrongly. Turing's test can be seen as two things: As a philosophical comment on "other minds problem" or as a practical test for attributing intelligence of computer programs. I will claim that it is of upmost value as the first one while it is of little importance as the second.