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Artificial Intelligence:
Computers do not think
Brian Stuart
Vanessa Hong
Ian Yunker
Jarred Miranda
Kevin Cronin
Nick Stefanow
No Free Will
• Humanity  reason or logic or any of the
other things that computers can do
• Humanity = intuition, sensuality, and
emotion.
• Can machines be creative?
Computers can’t think because they
don’t have a consciousness…
What is a consciousness?
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a. the quality or state of being aware especially of
something within oneself
b. state or fact of being conscious of an external object,
state, or fact
c. AWARENESS; especially : concern for some social or
political cause
the state of being characterized by sensation, emotion,
volition, and thought : MIND
the totality of conscious states of an individual
the normal state of conscious life
the upper level of mental life of which the person is aware
as contrasted with unconscious processes
No Emotions
• Computers can only do what they are
programmed to do
• People do not need reason to justify actions
• Almost every action involves an emotion
– i.e. anxiety  worse performance on a test
– Computers always take the test in the same way
• Emotions cause impulses...how can a
computer have an impulse?
No Learning Through Experience
• Computers do only what they are told to or
programmed to do, they have no
originality or creative powers.
• Supported by:
– EILZA effect
• which is reading more into computers
• their ability then is warranted
John Searle’s Argument:
THE CHINESE ROOM
Searl’s Main Point:
Searle wants his Chinese Room thought
experiment to be an intuition pump that
leads one to the conclusion that a computer
(or a robot with a computer for a brain)
running a program simply cannot be said
to understand anything (in this case,
Chinese).”
Computers Cannot Surpass Man
• Computers are limited by their creators
• While they can do some things faster than
humans, everything they know or can do is
derived from some human input
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No free will
No consciousness
No emotions
No creativity
No learning through experience
Programmed by man
therefore…
COMPUTERS CAN’T THINK