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

Instructor: David Quigley

Beginner Level • 7 hours to complete • Flexible Schedule

What You'll Learn

  • 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.

Skills You'll Gain

Computational Thinking
Theoretical Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Test Case
Psychology
Human Machine Interfaces

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Outcomes

  • Learn new concepts from industry experts
  • Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
  • Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
  • Earn a shareable career certificate

There are 4 modules in this course

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

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

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

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