Thank You Alan Turing for helping shorten WW2, and probably also being the reason for Blade Runner replicant test. Can Machine Think? Yes. I think so. Are they smart? Yes, I believe so. Are they alive? No. Can they feel? No.

It’s been weird to think about this class discussion. Because it was so hard to pinpoint the line of intelligence between humans and machines. What is the difference between learning and memorization? I know machines memorize, but they also observe patterns. Is that not how people work when they think? We, to understand something, have to see the patterns within what is being taught to us?

The only difference I can think of between us is the answer “why we do the things we do” and the emotions that drive us humans as a species. A Machine can agree someone should feel sad when another person dies, but not why we should feel that way or why we do.

That brings me to Blade Runner. In the film, if you talk to a Replicant, a robot, you would not be able to tell it was not human until it takes the Voight-Kampff test. A test to prove that a replicant is not human, mainly using the ideas of emotions. It should only take about 6 or 7 questions to determine if one is a replicant, at least in the book. Super cool, in my opinion.

Now, ENIAC and ARPANET are some of the coolest things I’ve learned about technology wise. I had heard of ENIAC in passing before, but I never learned the specifics. I also had no idea it was run by vacuum tubes, which, by the way, are still confusing to me. As are punch cards.

I never had to deal with punch cards, but I remember it being used in a quest in World Of Warcraft. So, I knew it was technologically related, but not exactly how it worked. Though it sorts of remind me of the music boxes that have a metal plates with dents in them. I know it doesn’t work that way, but, it’s just what I think of.

Arpanet is also cool to think about. I bet my father might have been able to use Arpanet during his time in the coast guard and government back in the day. I’m going to ask him and put it into this entry after. If so, I’m going to ask him to tell me about it. I know if he didn’t use it, someone he knows probably did!

I’m still struggling on Arpanet not being considered an intranet since it is closed. Why can’t it just be a special type of intranet. “An intranet is a private network accessible only to an organization’s staff. Generally a wide range of information and services from the organization’s internal IT systems are available that would not be available to the public from the Internet.” while Apranet “The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet.” Is it because arpanet was packet switching?