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How is this anything but pure semantics? I still don't know the conceptual difference between Searle's strong AI and weak AI, other a single word change in the
by natural219 16y ago
How is this anything but pure semantics? I still don't know the conceptual difference between Searle's strong AI and weak AI, other a single word change in the definition.
- blauwbilgorgel 16y agoIt's all about semantics with philosophers ;) Searle claims through this experiment that strong AI does not exist. The robot in the room doesn't know how to talk Chinese, it just matches up symbols by using an elaborate dictionary. Turing defined intelligence by the appearance of intelligence. If the Chinese room can make you think it houses someone that speaks Chinese, than that means the person in the room is intelligent. To Searle everything is weak AI. Just calculation, without knowing what they really calculate. Intelligence is more than appearance, like a hologram of someone, is not that person self. Pragmatists and functionalists play around Searle's conclusion. For them it is about the behavior, not the system itself. In Searle's vision something like the China Brain (every person in China uses a radio to act as a neuron) is ridiculous. In the functionalist view the China Brain is intelligent and self-aware.