Although there is no clear - cut definition of AI, it can be described as the capacity of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot device/machines to perform tasks commonly associated with the higher intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience. Present digital computers are capable of executing many amazing tasks. They can perform calculations millions or billions of times faster than human beings, play chess games, prove theorems, drive cars, and perform countless other human - like tasks. Yet, there have also been very

The Unpredictability Objection argues that humans according to sets of rules create computers and so if someone wanted to, he could work out exactly what a computer was going to do at any particular time. However, it is now argued that the computers are becoming so complex that it is doubtful that their behavior could be predicted even if everything was known about them and that humans are capable of error, whereas the "perfect" machine is not. {Evans, pp 445 446.}

According to Marvin Minsky "There is absolutely no known technical reason to doubt that we could build truly intelligent machines. In years to come we will learn more ways of making machines behave sensibly. We will learn more about new kinds of knowledge and processes and how to use the to make still more new knowledge." {Lawhead, pp 316 -317). In addition, Lawhead states that every time a computer accomplishes one of the cognitive tasks (such as playing chess, and/or understanding language), the critics are not convinced, and so he argues that there are no fixed/set standards to measure the intelligence of a computer.

Machines are somewhat intelligent, yet their intelligence cannot be compared to human intelligence. When was the last time, a computer/machine choose not to activate when someone switched it on, or felt upset when a certain part, such as a video card, modem etc, was removed from it? ---- Never. Today's machines still lack consciousness, emotion, intentionality, and free will and in my opinion, as long as machines lack these characteristics, they will never be posses a "mind" nor will they have the human/animal characteristics of intelligence.

Lets assume that a machine did have the capability to pass the Turing test, would that be mean that it was intelligent? A view most strongly argued by John Searle is that machines do not understand semantics. Computer programs are completely defined by their syntactical structure and mind has semantics content, which consti

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