Computing Machines Can't Be Intelligent (...and Turing Said So)

Author: Kugel P.¹

Source: Minds and Machines, Volume 12, Number 4, November 2002 , pp. 563-579(17)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

According to the conventional wisdom, Turing (1950) said that computing machines can be intelligent. I don't believe it. I think that what Turing really said was that computing machines –- computers limited to computing –- can only fake intelligence. If we want computers to become genuinely intelligent, we will have to give them enough ``initiative'' (Turing, 1948, p. 21) to do more than compute. In this paper, I want to try to develop this idea. I want to explain how giving computers more ``initiative'' can allow them to do more than compute. And I want to say why I believe (and believe that Turing believed) that they will have to go beyond computation before they can become genuinely intelligent.

Keywords: abstract machines; Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Science; hypercomputation; intelligence; limiting computability; models of mind; Putnam-Gold machines; trial-and-error machines

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Computer Science Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3808, USA; E-mail: Kugel@bc.edu

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