Scott 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

Scott 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.