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