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    Bringing up Turing's 'Child-Machine'

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    2012
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    Sterrett, Susan G.
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    Susan G. Sterrett. Bringing Up Turing's 'Child-Machine'. "How the World Computes: Turing Centenary Conference and 8th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2012, Cambridge, UK, June 18-23, 2012. Proceedings."-- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 7318 (2012): pp 703-713. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30870-3_71
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    Turing wrote that the "guiding principle" of his investigation into the possibility of intelligent machinery was "The analogy [of machinery that might be made to show intelligent behavior] with the human brain." [10] In his discussion of the investigations that Turing said were guided by this analogy, however, he employs a more far-reaching analogy: he eventually expands the analogy from the human brain out to "the human community as a whole." Along the way, he takes note of an obvious fact in the bigger scheme of things regarding human intelligence: grownups were once children; this leads him to imagine what a machine analogue of childhood might be. In this paper, I'll discuss Turing's child-machine, what he said about different ways of educating it, and what impact the "bringing up" of a child-machine has on its ability to behave in ways that might be taken for intelligent. I'll also discuss how some of the various games he suggested humans might play with machines are related to this approach.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10057/10704
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