COG 166 - Assignment One: DUE September 27th (Note change in due date)

Part A: Turing Test

Go to the following website and read about several versions of the Turing Test

http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/ai/turing.html

For another view of the test, see the following:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150724-the-problem-with-the-turing-test

Now, go to the following websites:

Try having a conversation with the programs on each page. Then, answer the following questions:

1) Did either of the programs convince you that it approached (or matched) human intelligence? Why or why not?

2) On a surface level (assuming you know nothing about programming) what would you do (if anything) to improve the behavior of the program.

Part B: Microworlds

Read the following file:

Microworlds Article

Please answer the following questions:

1) What are microworlds?

2) Under the heading "Examples of Microworlds, go to one of the websites. Please indicate which site you choose, and describe the microworld.

3) What are their possible uses for the study of cognition and learning?

Part C: Some ideas regarding recursion:

1)Please go to the following website:

http://vimeo.com/41822151

Please answer the following question: what is recursive drawing?

2) Please read the following article (notice that it spans several pages):

http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9424.pdf

Please answer the following questions:

a) According to the author, what is a "working definition" of recursion?

b) Name at least one example that the author uses to describe "recursion". In what way(s) does it display some aspects of the "working definition" that the author makes?