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The Chinese Room is a pretty useless thought exercise I think. It's an example which if you believe machines can't think seems like an utterly obvious result, a
by rcxdude 11mo ago
The Chinese Room is a pretty useless thought exercise I think. It's an example which if you believe machines can't think seems like an utterly obvious result, and if you believe machines can think it's just obviously wrong.
- tim333 11mo agoPeople used to take it surprisingly seriously. Now it's hard to make the argument that machines can't understand say Chinese when you can give a Chinese document to a machine and ask it questions about it and get pretty good answers.