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Are there things that machines will never do?

The question we pose today Doctor Philo was asked multiple times, and they proposed a variety of tests to know where to stop the machines in their imitation of man.

known today especially the Turing test of making a user interact with a computer with the aim of establishing for certain if the other side, there is another user, or if it is the machine that meets all alone.

In fact, Dr. Philo tried-adventure with a program ad-hoc (1): he was very disappointed. The doubt did not take more than 3 seconds. When he asked the caller what he thought of Barack Obama, the machine responded with a stereotype, like "You can reword your question? "

Already Descartes had raised the question of proof between the animal (considered by him as a machine) and the man there was a total difference. And this evidence is the use of language.

For example: a parrot says hello to his mistress, not that he is happy to see her, but because he hopes to have the food she was accustomed to give reward for having spoken. In other words, the talking machine does not with about and may not reflect reality. (See text Descartes here )

Another example: God has created Adam and he wondered if he invented a machine or if the man knows how to do that thing that the machine can not not do . He had the answer when chewed Adam's apple. A machine can not fish, that is to say, do what it has not been invented.

But I still prefer the test of Lady Lovelace, which is seldom mentioned.

Already Lady Lovelace was the daughter of Byron, which commands respect and arouses amazement in defining a test to pass to computers. But above all, the test is the creation of Lovelace: the machine, which is unable to create, that is to say, invent something that can not be deduced analytically data that are already known (2 ).

In fact, a machine that can create, it's scary. Example:

Many years ago IBM had produced a powerful computer chess player, Big Blue , against which Kasparov, world champion, lost. It said while some of moves made by the machine was pure creations, we would never have been able to infer from the database of prior parties stored in the memory of the machine.

was a machine that had passed the test brilliantly Lovelace: IBM has dismantled and nothing more was ever heard of.

(1) On a site on spam discussion: this is Alice .

(2) Is analytically deduced what was already contained in the given subject to analysis. A bit like the submarine surfaced beneath the sea existed before becoming visible.

Similarly, in the example of the parrot, "Hello" to the mistress is derived analytically the condition of the parrot: he's hungry.