That was the question asked during midterm examinations in IISc ,Proficience Course (Intelligent Systems and Programming). So here goes what i think about it. Even though i didn’t answer it properly in exam but when i reached home and analyzed i came with following explanations.
Computer can be programmed to play chess, beating everyone and even create certain signs of Intelligence but does that mean that computers can be as intelligent as humans? Doesn’t human like intelligence require a degree of awareness and understanding of what one is doing? Do we really know the meaning of intelligence? Can we define the awareness about the environment and ability to give logical conclusions as intelligence?
Since understanding seems to be a conscious activity, conscious thinking has a non-computational character. The perception of color, for example, is something that requires consciousness, as does the sensation of pain.So, you are absolutely correct when you assume that the machine can actually show the sign of intelligence when in fact, it was just mimicking the program codes.
The only way you can decide whether your program is really intelligent is to give a similar type of query, rather little deviated from the original one, that can test whether the program is able to draw conclusions, and therefore, is able to relate new situation with its experience, or not. The program can only be labeled as truly intelligent when it is able to take logical conclusion from one situation to another situation, without breaking the laws that determines its ‘creative’ ability, to draw another set of conclusions. This is what is known as the evolving characteristic of the organic thinking process.
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