Fun philosophical debate :) AI devs argue that the man responding in Chinese is consulting a look-up table (input to output rule-book). Table-lookups aren't tra

Fun philosophical debate :) AI devs argue that the man responding in Chinese is consulting a look-up table (input to output rule-book). Table-lookups aren't tractable for complex AI agents, and so must be boiled down to algorithms which yield the same results (and can be represented in code more compactly / efficiently). If the man knew the algorithm to convert input to output, then he knows Chinese.