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The perceived parallels between machines and people inspire different emotional themes in literature. Which of the following themes is least prominent in this literature?
Read a bit about the "uncanny valley" on the Web. Which of the following works (look them up on the W...
1). The perceived parallels between machines and people inspire different emotional themes
in literature. which of the following themes is least prominent in this literature?
Ans: Military glory
2). Read a bit about the "uncanny valley" on the web. which of the following works (look them
up on the web) does not play on ideas about the "uncanny valley" to achieve a scary or
eerie effect?
Ans: The Exorcist
3). Which of the following best summarizes searle's response to the "robot reply"?
Ans: You could incorporate sensors and actuators (like the input from TV cameras,
and motors to control arms and legs) into the Chinese characters that are used to
communicate with the room.
4). De la mettrie's ideas about mechanical interpretations of the human animal are part of a
larger movement in scientific history. which of these thinkers do you think is most
representative of the tradition in which de la mettrie was working?
Ans: Newton, who visualized the solar system as a sort of "celestial clockwork"
5). Using the web as a research guide, read up a bit on joseph weizenbaum's famous "eliza"
(or "doctor") program from the early days of ai. (in fact you can even interact with a running
version of the program at: http://www.manifestation.com/neurotoys/eliza.php3 . you take
the role of patient and let the program act as your therapist.) at the time of its creation,
"eliza" was considered an interesting ai system; today it is regarded as little more than a
programming exercise. here are some statements arguing for the unimportance of eliza:
which of these arguments is least substantial?
Ans: Doctor-patient conversations are not an interesting domain for the study of
artificial intelligence or language understanding
6). If software is to hardware as mind is to brain, then that implies
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, Ans: Studying neuroscience is analogous to studying computer architecture -
interesting, perhaps, but not necessary to the understanding of algorithms.
7). Which of these facts is not especially relevant to making the conceptual connection
between "she shook her piggy bank" and "it made no sound"?
Ans: Piggy banks are shaped like pigs.
8). Before william harvey promoted the analogy that the heart is like a pump, most physicians
followed the classical analogy (due to galen). using the web a source of research, answer:
which of the following does not characterize galen's model of the heart?
Ans: The heart is soft tissue.
9). Look up the "hidden chair" illusion at: https://www.moillusions.com/the-hidden-chairs/ .
how does this illusion illustrate the difficulty of the vision problem?
Ans: The very same two-dimensional scene can be produce by multiple arrangements
of elements in three-dimensions.
10). Which of the following is not a usual tenet of functionalism?
Ans: Thinking can take place only in human or animal brains.
11). Which of the following can be said of "impossibility proofs" such as turing's proof of the
impossibility of solving the "halting problem"?
Ans: Knowing that something is impossible is, historically, often an important
advance to theoretical knowledge.
12). "type 1" problems, as discussed in lecture, are problems for which we don't know where to
start to answer them, or even (sometimes) whether they could be answered. which of the
following is an example of such a problem?
Ans: What's the purpose (if any) of our existence as human beings?
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, 13). Scientific analogies, in general, are not exact (nor are they supposed to be). which of these
observations does not reveal a flaw in a common scientific analogy?
Ans: If the solar system is like a clockwork, then we should be able to tell time by the
movement of the sun, moon, and planets in the sky.
14). Doing some web research, you should find that one of the following thinkers experienced a
spectacular failure trying to market a "talking doll" (most people find it scary rather than
appealing). which of these thinkers ventured into the business of automata?
Ans: Thomas Edison
15). Why do the vision and language problems seem easy to us?
Ans: Everyone seems to learn how to see and how to speak by a relatively early age,
so the problems seem easy, though they prove to be hard to represent in program form.
16). The idea of functionalism holds a certain natural appeal for computer scientists. which of
these statements comes closest to explaining why that's the case?
Ans: Just as we can study algorithms without worrying about the fine structure of the
computers on which they run, we can study cognitive models independent of the
physical substrate (neural or mechanical) on which they run.
17). In responding to the behaviorist tradition of psychology, which of the following was not an
element of the computational metaphor of mind?
Ans: Computers can be linked together to communicate with each other directly,
providing an analogy to conversation (or, perhaps, to telepathy).
18). The "vision problem" as discussed in lecture is impossible to solve because
Ans: It is impossible to recover 3D objects from 2D information (of the sort on the
retina).
19). Which of the following analogies has not played an important role in the history of
science?
Ans: Cells are like corporate organizations.
20).
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