> I have no problem accepting the "entire room" as a system understands Chinese. > you'll fail whenever the task requires you to use the kind of computational

> I have no problem accepting the "entire room" as a system understands Chinese. > you'll fail whenever the task requires you to use the kind of computational model your interlocutor uses. I think it's important to distinguish between knowing the language and knowing anything about the stuff being discussed in the language. The top level comment all this is under mentioned knowing what a bag is or what popcorn is. These don't require computational complexity, but do require some other data than just text, and a model that can relate multiple kinds of input.