Sunday, April 13, 2008

What is think?

Have you thought about what think is? Does that mean judge, consider or estimate? Then, if computers consider things, solve problems, or make decisions in a particular way, can we say computers THINK? This concept is artificial intelligence so called AI. Alan Turing is the founder of computer science -artificial intelligence-, though he was a gay man. I think my professer Yoon was generous with homosexuality. I also know some people who are gays, i agree they are kind, but i have some bad idea about homosexuality. That is my opinion. Anyway, he was one of the great genius, but he suicided when he was 42 because of his homosexuality.
He created “imitation game" which computer roles of the woman, and a client guess who is a real woman. If the computer could trick the client, does that mean computer can think? That was his basic idea of AI. Also he made the first computer, universal machine, to use Breaking of U-boat Enigma in 1936. Finaly they did won the second world war.

Here, what Marvin Minsky defined artificial intelligence in 1963 is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence as if done by humans. One example of AI is Hanoi Tower Problem-planning as a technical problem. but people think computer never can be smarter than human being, because computers can make plan as programed, if it get a unexpected situation, not programed, it will show us error message. Computer can not solve problems in real world.
Next class is no class for preparing my first mid-term exam. mid-term exam in honored system.
Here some expected questions which i have to study.

1.When do digital media technologies become media?
2.What do technologies embody today?
3.What are the laptop computer’s politics? Write down at least three.
4.Computers can take many different material forms. What are those examples? (the innovators and their theory title and machine name)
5.What is memex?
6.What are new media and old media? Write down as coupled forms.
7.What is the relationship between new media and old media?
8.What are two common computer technologies of the 1960s?
9.What are Douglas Engelbart’s inventions?
10.What is WWW? (3 definitions in the class)
11.What is Stanley Milgram’s proposition in social network?
12.Explain two major social capitals.
13.Which social capital can the global school of media be? Then, why?
14.What was Google’s page rank algorithms for popular web pages?
15.What is ‘Turing Test (imitation game)’?
16.What is ‘artificial intelligence’ by Marvin Minsky?
17.What are research areas in artificial intelligence?
18.What is ‘GPS(General Problem Solver)’?
19.What is ‘Frame Problem’?
20.What is ‘micro-talespin’?
21.What is ‘FRUMP’?
22.What is ‘ELIZA’?
23.What is ‘Huge Harry’?
24.Is David (Haley Joel Osment in the film A.I.) a human? Why? or Why not?

Thank you.^^

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