Making machines think like humans
For decades, we have been trying to get the machine to think more like humans. In order to make this happen, we need to understand how humans think in the first place. How do we understand the nature of human thinking? One way to do this would be to note down how we respond to things. But this quickly becomes intractable, because there are too many things to note down. Another way to do this is to conduct an experiment based on a predefined format. We develop a certain number of questions to encompass a wide variety of human topics, and then see how people respond to it.
Once we gather enough data, we can create a model to simulate the human process. This model can be used to create software that can think like humans. Of course, this is easier said than done! All we care about is the output of the program given an input. If the program behaves in a way that matches human behavior, then we can say that humans have a similar thinking mechanism...