Do you think that computers can think?

Computer says no

What exactly is thinking? Is thinking carrying out a set of instructions, following program rules and coming to a conclusion.

I think before we can answer whether computers think we need to define what thinking actually is, for we as humans follow rules in thinking which really are no different in principle to that of a computer. And perhaps that is what scares people most, in that we are nothing more than a biological machine that operates a very sophisticated program full of feed back loops that can create the idea of an identity.

Perhaps the question should be, do humans think?

No. They are only machines that obey a set of instructions (the program). If any computer appears to have a mind of its own and can respond you "talking to it" then that is due to a very clever and elaborate program. This reflects on the "thinking" ability of the programmer not any self-awareness on the part of the computer.

The computer which really is capable of independent thought (true artificial intelligence) does not exist outside of science fiction. There is no prospect of it happening in the foreseeable future either. This does not mean it won't ever happen - but it's not yet.

Neurologically, thinking is no more than set of information networks, being activate at one time, following internal programs, made so by brain structure/network structures, and grammatical laws. A thought can be a logical conclusion, if A --> B, which is something computers already do.

There are many aspects to cognition. Thinking is far too general. It includes more particular internal events, that you can probably IDENTIFY and CATEGORIZE fine, but not as well as some computers.

Here are some thinking bots:

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2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhE

3, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHtNdIQ3dJs

Give it ten years, tart, and you'll see that they will do more thinking than most of us.

Well,they can win at chess and Jeopardy.That may not be actual thinking,but more programmed response.But I think an actual thinking machine is just around the corner.And to be honest,I wish we wouldn't go there.A.I. scares the crap out of me.

On the other hand,it would be nice to have an intelligent robot to help around the house.But that is really just a new form of slavery,techno-slavery,if you will.I think the pandora's box we open with technology will not be worth the benefits we gain.

No, computers cannot think. They (currently) must follow a precise set of instructions to functions and will 'break' if they can't be followed (such as program crashes). There must be a explicitly defined set of instructions to be followed by the computer, it cannot make the instructions or choose not to follow them, it does one thing only and that is to do what it is told to do next.

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Alan Turing asked that question in 1950 and proposed a test to determine if a computer could think. Turing, a mathematician and a pioneer in computer science, proposed that it would someday be possible for a sufficiently advanced computer to think and to have some form of consciousness. How would we know if a computer was conscious? Turing suggested that if a computer and a human being were hidden behind a screen, and another human being were given the task of interrogating each of them, it would be reasonable to conclude that the computer was conscious if the interrogator could not distinguish the computer from the human being.

There have been many variations of the Turing test proposed, some by Turing himself, and there are annual contests based on the Turing test. Thus far, no computer has passed the Turing test (by general consensus), although some have come close.

Is the Turing test meaningful and valid? Is it possible for a computer to think?

To answer, we must first ask: what do we mean by "think"? We mean a mental act. What are the characteristics of a mental act? Several plausible characteristics have been proposed -- free will, restricted access (only the thinker experiences his thoughts), incorrigibility (only the thinker knows with certainty the content of his thought), qualia (raw sensory experience), etc. But philosophers agree that one unambiguous characteristic is essential to mental acts: intentionality.

Intentionality is the other-directedness of a mental act. Intentionality is the "aboutness" of a thought. When I think about the weather, or about my boss, I'm thinking about something or someone other than my mental act itself. Things without minds don't have primary intentionality. A rock or a tree isn't intrinsically "about" something. A mental act can impart secondary intentionality to an object (that tree reminds me of spring), but the intentionality is imparted, not intrinsic. Only mental acts have intrinsic primary intentionality.

http://www.evolutionnews.org/2011/03/failing_the_t...

Yes, Computers Can Think - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/14/opinion/yes-comp...

The researchers were Dr. Jacob Goldenberg, Dr. David Mazursky and Dr. Sorin Solomon of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. They weren’t actually trying to find out whether computers or humans are more creative – but to mimic the thought patterns of effective human creators. Note that the human group were untrained, with no previous experience of creating adverts. The computers, on the other hand, were programmed using formulas derived from successful adverts.

So the computers had an unfair advantage. It’s as if two groups of people were pitted against each other in a game of chess: the first group composed of people who had only ever seen chess matches played on television; the second group given a thorough grounding in the rules of chess.

http://lateralaction.com/articles/computers-creati...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The branch of computer science that studies how to program computers to exhibit apparently intelligent behavior. The branches of artificial intelligence are usually defined as pattern recognition, theorem proving, language processing, and game playing.

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/ARTIFI_INTEL.html

The subfield of computer science concerned with understanding the nature of intelligence and constructing computer systems capable of intelligent action. It embodies the dual motives of furthering basic scientific understanding and making computers more sophisticated in the service of humanity.

Many activities involve intelligent action—problem solving, perception, learning, planning and other symbolic reasoning, creativity, language, and so forth—and therein lie an immense diversity of phenomena. Scientific concern for these phenomena is shared by many fields, for example, psychology, linguistics, and philosophy of mind, in addition to artificial intelligence. The starting point for artificial intelligence is the capability of the computer to manipulate symbolic expressions that can represent all manner of things, including knowledge about the structure and function of objects and people in the world, beliefs and purposes, scientific theories, and the programs of action of the computer itself.

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No, they cannot. As the simplest of explanations, a computer is not much more than a complex switching system. If you clicked a switch and a light tuned on, would you assume the switch or the light bulb 'thought'?

computers process information in a way that approximates thought. They do not think in ANY way.