What is “the mind” and what is artificial intelligence? (Coursera)

What You Will 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.

Course 1 of 4 in the Mind and Machine Specialization.

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Introduction

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

WEEK 2

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.

WEEK 3

A Hard Problem

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

WEEK 4

Cognitive Problems in Computational Terms

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