Do computers think?
The reading passage mainly discusses about the Turing test that was designed in 1950 to see if the computers can think. Turing test involved groups of people sitting in other room to interect with the either the computer or person sitting in another room. According to the test, group of people could ask the questions verbally or through the computer terminal. If after the end of test they are not able to distinguish between human and computer, then computer would be considered to pass the test.
But since then, no computers have been developed that could pass the turing test.
However, the lecturer casts doubt on the ideas presented in the reading. The lecture suggests that turing test is is not efficient and it does not consider behavioural aspect. If an English speaking person listens the question in different language, he may not be able to answer it properly even if he knew the answer. But, if the question is explained to him in his native language, he can respond properly. Similarly, a computer can be built with complex inputs to provide desired output but this does not mean that computers can think. It can't be inferred that they develop their own answer. They cannot even answer the basic questions of artificial intelligence like "Do the computers think"?
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...gned in 1950 to see if the computers can think. Turing test involved groups of pe...
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...er casts doubt on the ideas presented in the reading. The lecture suggests that ...
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...s presented in the reading. The lecture suggests that turing test is is not effi...
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Suggestion: is
... The lecture suggests that turing test is is not efficient and it does not consider ...
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...s not mean that computers can think. It cant be inferred that they develop their own...
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Line 4, column 545, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'cants'?
Suggestion: cants
...s not mean that computers can think. It cant be inferred that they develop their own...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, similarly, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1077.0 1373.03311258 78% => OK
No of words: 218.0 270.72406181 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94036697248 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.84250218741 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51540577708 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.582568807339 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 323.1 419.366225166 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.5466047212 49.2860985944 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 89.75 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1666666667 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.5 7.06452816374 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273243833709 0.272083759551 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0930097174939 0.0996497079465 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10501536108 0.0662205650399 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166585116106 0.162205337803 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0492094993719 0.0443174109184 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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