Within
the field of Computer Science, many have sought to decode the complexities of
human intelligence, and create an artificial intelligence. In the graphic
novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick , Rachel Eldon is an android that has an
artificial intelligence that may be on par or exceeding the current capabilities
of human intelligence. During, the Voight-Kampff test, she appears to be able
to develop emotionally charged responses to some of the questions asked to her.
In particular, when asked a question concerning her course of action in response
to her hypothetical husband hanging up a picture of a nude woman atop a
bearskin rug in his study, she fails to notice the subtleties in this loaded
question (Dick 316). Due to her being an android, she decides the logical
course of action is to not let him hang it up; therefore, she fails to notice
that the real question was concerning the desecration of a deceased animal. The
article, “Dream-Logic, the Internet and Artificial Thought” by David Gelernter,
argues whether or not computers will reach ever an artificial intelligence that is
comparable or superior to human intelligence. In one particular instance, he
states that in order to close the gaps between these two forms of intelligences
that computers will need to be able free-associate. He defines free-association
as, “each new thought resembles or overlaps or somehow connects-to the previous
thought” (Gelernter 260). In this state
of mind, computers should begin to develop their own unique ideas.
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