> they're a Chinese Room Searle's "Chinese Room" thought experiment is designed to appeal to your intuition. But it appeals in an incredibly unrealistic way. I

> they're a Chinese Room Searle's "Chinese Room" thought experiment is designed to appeal to your intuition. But it appeals in an incredibly unrealistic way. If you fill a room full of people shuffling Han characters (why would anyone do this?) you cannot possibly have anything resembling intelligence. According to random guesses found on the internet, ChatGPT requires at least eight A100 GPUs to generate text. If you believe nVidia's marketing numbers, this gives you about 2.5 petaflops. That's 2.5 quadrillion operations per second, plus communications overhead. If you decide to implement that calculation, imagine 350,000 versions of planet Earth, each with 7 billion people performing one operation per second. And some kind of faster-than-light communication, I suppose. It's absolutely obvious to me that nothing like "thought" could possibly occur in any realistically-imaginable room full of people shuffling symbols. But if you fill 350,000 planets with people shuffling symbols frantically... I'm no longer sure? I don't trust my intuition at all? My brain is made up of a lot of atoms, and they somehow produce thought, after all. Now, ChatGPT is not conscious. We're still several major breakthoughs away from any kind of "real" AI, I think. All we have now is a language module, a large memory of knowledge about the world, and some very inconsistent reasoning abilities. Although I have a nasty suspicion that at least a few of the missing parts will be easy to invent once someone tries...