Mathematics and Computer Science Department
Jeffrey Horn

"Searle's Chinese Room Argument Against Strong AI" 

Jeffrey Horn's CS 126 presentation on 10-4-01, 3pm LRC 107

OUTLINE

I.  Good on-line summaries

• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• A dissertation on the topic

• Searle himself speaks

II.   Artificial Intelligence

• Deduction

• Induction

• "Deep Blue"

• Lenat's Cyc Project

• Natural Language Understanding

• The Turing Test

  • Alan Turing

  • The Turing Machine

  • The Turing Award

  • The Turing Test

    • Turing's original idea

    • Loebner Prize

    • Surprising (?) results

  • Eliza

• "Strong AI"  (Searle's term) vs. "weak ai"  (also Searle's!)

III.  The Room

IV.  The Replies

• The Room Reply

• The Robot Reply

• etc.

• Non-symboloc AI

  • Neural networks

  • Evolutionary computation

V.  The Extremists  (extending Searle)

•  Roger Penrose

VI.  Your Opinion?

• That is your assignment!  You must convince me.  Form your opinion.  Write it up, BRIEFLY!  (one paragraph MAX.)  Get it to meby next Thurs.  I might respond, and then you must respond.  If you don't convince me, no "S"!