University of Colorado Boulder
What is “the mind” and what is artificial intelligence?
University of Colorado Boulder

What is “the mind” and what is artificial intelligence?

This course is part of Mind and Machine Specialization

David Quigley

Instructor: David Quigley

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
4.4

(144 reviews)

Beginner level
No prior experience required
7 hours to complete
3 weeks at 2 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Describe the details of the Turing test, including its purpose, limitations, and potential impact.

  • Describe the details of Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment, including its purpose, limitations, and potential impact.

  • Discuss previous and current attempts to create artificial systems that can pass the Turing Test in various domains.

  • Compute and outline the limitations of exponential and factorial growth functions.

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There are 4 modules in this course

This week we will explore the history of automata and machines imitating life.

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1 video1 assignment1 discussion prompt

This week we will start to define the boundaries of intelligence, understanding, and related ideas from both human and machine perspectives.

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1 video5 readings4 assignments1 peer review2 discussion prompts

For the next two weeks, we will discuss how our understanding of cognition leads to differing definitions of problems.

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1 video1 reading1 assignment

We will continue discussing how our understanding of cognition leads to differing definitions of problems.

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3 videos3 readings3 assignments1 discussion prompt

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David Quigley
University of Colorado Boulder
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