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That‘s just a philosophical argument, it‘s not like there is some magical property that turns something from a Chinese room into something else. How do you kno

• roenxi 6y ago
  Or the lawyers. Both as an anti-lawyer joke but also from the quite practical observations that there are a bunch of human endeavours, law springing to mind, where humans have to act as a Chinese room on purpose and reason about things they have little practical experience with using only words.
• the8472 6y ago
  The issue with the chinese room thought experiment is that it does not take algorithmic complexity into account. The experiment describes a dumb lookup table, the table size would grow exponentially with the number of input output combinations. While NNs encodings allowing them to store the same information in a sub-exponential manner. The most efficient manner to translate chinese is to understand chinese including every-day nuances that might be relevant to the translations. Just like a human translator can benefit from knowledge in the field about the text which he is translating. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.136.116&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.136...