The collective minds at Stanford University say that it is “It is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but AI does not have to confine itself to methods that are biologically observable.” (McCarthy J.) However for the purposes of looking at the question of if Artificial Intelligence can be conscious this definition will not be used. Merriam-Webster defines artificial intelligence as “the power of a machine to copy intelligent human behavior.” It is perhaps this definition that is held by most people. This definition gets us closer to what I am going to be discussing, but for the purpose of getting at it in terms of its relation to the topic of consciousness we will use a simplified version of the google definition as provided by Jack Copeland in an article written on the subject of “What is Artificial Intelligence” of artificial intelligence as “making computers do things that require intelligence when done by
The collective minds at Stanford University say that it is “It is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but AI does not have to confine itself to methods that are biologically observable.” (McCarthy J.) However for the purposes of looking at the question of if Artificial Intelligence can be conscious this definition will not be used. Merriam-Webster defines artificial intelligence as “the power of a machine to copy intelligent human behavior.” It is perhaps this definition that is held by most people. This definition gets us closer to what I am going to be discussing, but for the purpose of getting at it in terms of its relation to the topic of consciousness we will use a simplified version of the google definition as provided by Jack Copeland in an article written on the subject of “What is Artificial Intelligence” of artificial intelligence as “making computers do things that require intelligence when done by