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AI - Glossary
- Chinese room experiment:
- A counter argument to the Turing test which attempts to
show that the Turing test is not a reliable indicator of
true intelligence and/or consciousness.
- Competitive learning:
- A process in which a network can exhibit self-organization.
Hidden layer nodes `compete' to represent certain features
of the input training patterns.
- Consciousness:
- Difficult to define. The attributes usually ascribed to
consciousness usually include self-awareness, a sense of past and
future, free will and most outward signs of intelligent behavior.
- Intelligence:
- Ability to deal with abstract concepts and form complex
pictures of the outside world. Creativity, ability with
spoken and written language etc.
- Kohonen net:
- An example of a network which uses competitive learning.
- Self-organizing nets:
- Nets which can `train' themselves to accomplish useful tasks.
- Turing test:
- A test conceived by Alan Turing in 1950 designed to reveal
whether a machine was conscious.
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