ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: AN ANALYSIS OF ALAN TURING’S ROLE IN THE CONCEPTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENT MACHINERY

The purpose of this thesis is to follow the thread of Alan Turing’s ideas throughout his decades of research and analyze how his predictions have come to fruition over the years. Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence is the paper in which the Turing Test is described as an alternative way to answer the question “can machines think?” (Turing 433). Since the development of Turing’s original paper, there has been a tremendous amount of advancement in the field of artificial intelligence. The field has made its way into art classification as well as the medical industry. The main concept researched in this analysis focuses on whether or not a machine exists that has passed the Turing Test. Should it be determined that a machine has indeed passed this test, it is important to discuss what the ethical implications of this accomplishment entail. Turing’s paper, while raising great controversy regarding its ethical implications, proves to offer significant contribution to the field of artificial intelligence and technology

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Geometric Phase for Fermionic Quasiparticles Scattering by Disgyration in Superfluids

We consider a Volovik's analog model for description of a topological defects in a superfluid and we investigate the scattering of quasiparticles in this background. The analog of the gravitational Aharonov-Bohm in this system is found. An analysis of this problem employing loop variables is considered and corroborates for the existence of the Aharonov-Bohm effect in this system. The results presented here may be used to study the Aharonov-Bohm effect in superconductors.Comment: 7 pages, to appear in Europhys. Let