Philosophy 4610 Spring 2008

Philosophy of Mind

  Reading Questionnaire #8

  Due: Tuesday, April 1, 2008

  Please answer each question in 2-4 sentences.

1. Each of the Loebner Prize contest transcripts you read records a conversation between a human JUDGE and a SUBJECT who may be computer or human.  Which of the transcripts do you think are COMPUTER subjects?  Which do you think are HUMAN subjects?  How could you tell?  

2. According to Dreyfus, what kinds of things can we probably not get computers or robots to do?  Why not?