Suppose you decided to try and make computers more ‘human’ and introduce the ‘random element.’ How would you do that?

What will be an ideal response?

It is possible to make computers random in the sense that we can create random numbers and then use a random number as a means of choosing the outcome of a decision; that is, creating a random element. Random numbers can be generated by taking random noise and converting it into 1s and 0s (random noise is the background hiss present on some radio signals). Random numbers can also be created mathematically by starting with a seed (an initial number) and then applying successive mathematical operations to create a sequence of numbers that appear to be random. These are called pseudo?random numbers because the same seed always generates the same sequence.

It would be possible to model some aspects of human thought processes by using random numbers to ‘make a guess’; for example, to model a decision that is 90% certain you could create a random number in the range 0.0 to 1.0 and then take the decision if the random number is less than 0.9. This speculation belongs to the world of artificial intelligence.