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You can make a pretty good argument that the _rulebook_ is the Chinese-speaking intelligence in the room. "But it's an inanimate object, if the human stops fo
by variaga 6y ago
You can make a pretty good argument that the _rulebook_ is the Chinese-speaking intelligence in the room. "But it's an inanimate object, if the human stops following the rules it will be inert". Yeah, and if your mitochondria stop producing ATP you'll be inert too.
Also. People taking Seale's position rarely reckon with just how big that rulebook would be.
- wrs 6y agoDaniel Dennett coined the term “intuition pump” for this, which is a great concept to keep in mind so you don’t get caught by one. Wikipedia: An argument “designed to elicit intuitive but incorrect answers by formulating the description in such a way that important implications of the experiment would be difficult to imagine and tend to be ignored.”
- 3PS 6y agoScott Aaronson has an excellent take on the Chinese room argument in my opinion, namely that the existence of intelligence can be inferred from asymptotic space complexity. If you have a rulebook which lists every possible sentence and optimal response, the size of that book is clearly exponential in the size of the longest possible input. On the other hand, if you could construct an algorithm which can "understand" Chinese using only polynomial space and runtime, then it seems a lot more intuitively clear that there is something genuinely intelligent happening.