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Can you expand on this? The thought experiment is just about showing that there is more to having a mind than having a program. It’s not an argument about the c
by siglesias 1y ago
Can you expand on this? The thought experiment is just about showing that there is more to having a mind than having a program. It’s not an argument about the capabilities of LLMs or AGI. Though it’s worth noting that behavioral criteria continue to lead to people overestimating the capabilities of promise of AI.
- mannykannot 1y agoLLMs are capable of performing the task specified for the Chinese room over a wide range of complex topics and for a considerable length of time. While it is true that their productions are wrong or ill-conceived more often than one would expect from a well-informed human, and sometimes look like the work of a rather stupid one, the burden now rests on Searle's successors to show that every such interaction is purely syntactic.
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