Turing

Aaahhh Turing. I took turing in grade 12, and it was, although fairly boring, kind of neat to see what you could do with a programing language. Through turing, we learned to write programs that helped us compute math problems, games of tic tac toe, that you could play with either yourself, or the strategist computer (who beat you almost every time). You can create very realistic graphics, using only the programming language, or you can include pictures from other sources. Honestly, my teacher for turing was pretty quirky, so convincing him that he's actually a computer probably wouldn't have been to difficult for him to grasp. Turing games and programs are actually available on the internet, although they're nothing more interesting than binary convertors, and honestly, who actually wants to do that?


These day's it really is amazing what you can program a computer to do. I think that computer's are defintately fast enough to have a measure of intelligence. Technically, they're only limited by our intelligence, so in that respect, aren't they just as intelligent, if not more intelligent than our best computer programmer? Maybe we're not at the point where we know how to reproduce A.I., but I think that it will definately be possible in the future! There are many increibly cool computer applications that allows us to design, acquire knowledge, or even just have fun.

How neat is that?! With thousands of computer engineers and programmers, with some of the best minds in the world, I don't think that robots with A.I. are far off at all. We'll see.