A Chinese Speaker’s take on the Chinese Room
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22 min readJul 5, 2019
Trigger warning: Boring index 9/10. This is not an article about an exciting technology breakthrough, instead, it is an AI philosophy essay refining the 4-decades old Chinese Room thought-experiment — which if works according to its original design, one who communicates intelligently shall not understand a thing they read or write…
Background
In 1980, Mr. John Searle who teaches at UC Berkeley, (where I am getting my Masters in Data Science from), published the famous Chinese Room Thought Experiment.
