Yes, you misunderstand it. The Chinese Room is a refutation of the Turing Test and similar claims on AGI. It has nothing to do with the person in the room, but

Yes, you misunderstand it. The Chinese Room is a refutation of the Turing Test and similar claims on AGI. It has nothing to do with the person in the room, but with the outside observer. You, the observer, could be convinced by the evidence that a Chinese speaker is in the room despite that not being the case. So you can't use outcomes to infer intelligence, and formal computaion of symbols is not thought. A neural network is still just an extremely fancy, well tuned lookup table.