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All that the Chinese room experiment really shows is that in the real world, our naive notion of "understanding" is indistinguishable from a complex amalgamatio
by cultureswitch 4y ago
All that the Chinese room experiment really shows is that in the real world, our naive notion of "understanding" is indistinguishable from a complex amalgamation of automated processes. The sooner we stop referring to "understanding" as if the word means something, the better our thinking about AI and humans will be.
- jolancer 4y agoWhat is so interesting to me is how much bias we have that my "understanding" of what you wrote is something additional to a Chinese room. IMO it is because no matter what people say outwardly, most people will not give up their "souls". They will even defer to some as yet undiscovered and unnamed property/process. "I "think", therefor I am not a Chinese room!" is not a strong argument.