“Half of the meaningful things philosophy has said about artificial intelligence have already been said by Turing 50 years ago.” I do not remember who said this, and it is probably an overstatement, but it is not far from the truth. Even the AI textbook by Russell and Norvig claims that Turing’s paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence contains “virtually all objections [against the possibility of thinking machines] that have been raised in the half century since his paper appeared.”

Here are the slides for the presentation I held in Tuesday’s philosophy class, in the hope that they may be of some use, even if part of it is incomprehensible for anyone who did not read the paper or listen to the talk: