Strong AI and Weak AI

• Phrases coined by John Searle

• Weak AI takes the view that …

  • Computers are powerful tools
    • to do things that humans otherwise do
    • and to study the nature of minds in general

• Strong AI takes the view that

  • A computer with the right software is a mind

• Lucas and Searle attack Strong AI

• Weizenbaum attacks all AI

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There are some excellent resources on Alan Turing

There is a biography by Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma

A play of his life is called ‘Breaking the Code’.

An excellent web page is maintained also by Hodges.