What is “the mind” and what is artificial intelligence?

University of Colorado Boulder via Coursera

Go to Course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/mind-machine-artificial-intelligence

Introduction

Describe the details of the Turing test, including its purpose, limitations, and potential impact.

Describe the details of Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment, including its purpose, limitations, and potential impact.

Discuss previous and current attempts to create artificial systems that can pass the Turing Test in various domains.

Compute and outline the limitations of exponential and factorial growth functions.

Syllabus

Introduction

This week we will explore the history of automata and machines imitating life.

Tests and Thought Experiments

This week we will start to define the boundaries of intelligence, understanding, and related ideas from both human and machine perspectives.

A Hard Problem

For the next two weeks, we will discuss how our understanding of cognition leads to differing definitions of problems.

Cognitive Problems in Computational Terms

We will continue discussing how our understanding of cognition leads to differing definitions of problems.

Overview

In this course, we will explore the history of cognitive science and the way these ideas shape how we think of artificial cognition.

Skills

Theoretical Computer Science Machine Learning

Reviews

Good introduction to the concept of the mind and must-read papers.

The course is very informative,week 4 questions are very tough ...but finally course completed

Gives you a lot to think about. A great introduction to thinking about computational complexity and the mind vs the machine.

This was a lot of fun and just the right amount of challenging at the end!

It is a good introduction to what is artificial intelligence and that has been sought or meaning from its origins