Lecture 14: The Turing Test - Richard Buckland UNSW

Inspirational Scientist Jane Goodall speaks about Jo-Jo and Rick. (sound patchy for first 8 mins - download the full quality 4min audio clip of her lecture from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~richardb/JaneGoodall.wav
courtesy of the ABC RN Science Show)

More about the great thinker Alan Turing. The Turing Test and its links with design, computer science, and life the universe and somethings.

What is it to be a person?

Philosophy T. Intensional vs Extensional points of view.

Pointers * and & revisited.

while loops

common mistakes with loops

Also mentioned: godel escher bach auden EOF

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[brickbat14u]

Regarding Turings sexuality & the 'thanks UK' comment. In the context of post war, the hysterical antipathy towards homosexuality generally was common place throughout ALL Anglo saxon nations and that includes Aussies. Nobody is clean on this one. Also ENIGMA was important and Turing did help to devise a system for cracking it but is was essentially an electro-mechanical device...not a computer! The real computer was called COLOSSUS which decoded the Geheimschreiber codes (teleprinter)

[UNSWelearning]

too true sadly about australian conservatism. had oz had a gay war hero of such great contribution they could well have been persecuted also. but that in no sense excuses the utterly shameful treatment he received.

mechanical or electric makes no difference as to whether it is a "computer" (indeed the theme of this lecture!) eg babbage's analytical engine was more a computer than colossus was. turing contributed to the automation of computation but did not build a computer at bletchley park

[beerbelly777]

your analogy only includes one measurement. The actual definition of a human would include many measurements, so to test the rock, you would have to apply every measurement to the rock which define the human. undoubtedly, you would end up concluding the rock is not human...your argument is kind of a strawman argument.

[jhamien920]

I'll be watching more of Richard's video. he is so funny at the same time informative.

[navidsonpuzzle]

A video of the events talked about by Jane Goodall: ht1tp://ww1w.youtube.com/watch­?v=eqbclCNRiPo (remove 1's)

[verwoestijning]

The Postmodernism Generator is a computer program that automatically generates postmodern essays. Gramatically correct but meaningless.

Now watch a college language student reviewing a computer generated essay. He has no clue of its true origin.

A must see.

/watch?v=jxQ7rONF5iE

[barramundi9]

@annihilatedsin The name of the book is "godel escher bach".

[annihilatedsin]

what's the name of the book he mentioned? I can't understand him...

[bighands69]

@brickbat14u

A computer is not a physical device. It is conceptual mathematical machine.

Any system that uses mathematics is technical a computer.

Computation is a mathematical concept with definable rule sets.

[OJReadMore]

30:35 If anyone is curious:

"argc" is how many arguments you are passing to the program(an integer number), and "argv" is a single array of (chararacter) pointers to the strings which are those arguments. The details are hidden but these arguments are passed to the program via your system's command line interpreter.

Google: "The C Book - Arguments To Main" if you want to learn more. You won't really use it for Windows environment, it's a command-line environment thing.