Mind and Machine Using computers to understand how the mind works.

Same or different?

A brief history of AI: Prehistory  Automata  Descartes: Animals as machines

Computing machines  Da Vinci, Pascal, and Schickard  Babbage’s Difference Engine and Analytical Engine

The First breakthrough  The Analytical Engine was the first stored program computer.  Such a computer has a set of basic instructions used in different sequences to perform calculations.  Complex calculations can be built from simple instructions

The Turing Test

Passing grades?  PARRY the Paranoid Robot  Eliza:  Eliza:  Chat bots:  Chat bots:  What about my cats?

Information processing theory

The symbol system hypothesis  Successes: Logic Theorist Logic Theorist SHRDLU SHRDLU GPS GPS MYCIN and other Expert Systems MYCIN and other Expert Systems

The birth of Cognitive Modeling

Searle’s Chinese Room

Does the Chinese Room hold water?

Where is the burden of proof?

Meaning and Understanding in symbol systems

Computer programs as theories of mind