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Chinese room
Suppose that artificial intelligence research has succeeded in programming a computer to behave as if it understands Chinese. The machine accepts Chinese characters as input, carries out each instruction of the program step by step, and then produces Chinese characters as output. The machine does this so perfectly that no one can tell that they are communicating with a machine and not a hidden human being.
Chinese room argument
Chinese room argument, thought experiment by the American philosopher John Searle, first presented in his journal article “Minds, Brains, and Programs” (1980), designed to show that the central claim of what Searle …
Chinese Room Argument
The Chinese room argument is a thought experiment of John Searle. It is one of the best known and widely credited counters to claims of artificial intelligence (AI), that is, to claims that …
The Chinese Room
The Chinese Room Thought Experiment. Searle imagines himself in a locked room where he is given pages with Chinese writing on them. He does not know Chinese. He does not even …
The Chinese Room Argument
Searle (1999) summarized the Chinese Room argument concisely: Imagine a native English speaker who knows no Chinese locked in a room full of boxes of Chinese …
Arguing with the Chinese Room
Searle introduced the Chinese Room in a paper published in 1980, called ‘Minds, Brains, and Programs’ (Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol.3, no.3). The paper begins with the following thought experiment: Professor Searle is …
The logic of Searle’s Chinese room argument
John Searle’s Chinese room argument (CRA) is a celebrated thought experiment designed to refute the hypothesis, popular among artificial intelligence (AI) scientists and philosophers of …
Real Robots and the Missing Thought Experiment in the Chinese …
Moravec cites Searle’s CRA, and then simply goes on to describe a (near) future in which robots do everything we do, and more | an age in which it is taken for granted that robots have what …
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Work in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has produced computer programsthat can beat the world chess champion, control autonomous vehicles,complete our email sentences, and defeat the best human players o…
Suppose that artificial intelligence research has succeeded in programming a computer to behave as if it understands Chinese. The machine accepts Chinese characters as input, carries out each instruction of the program step by step, and then produces Chinese characters as output. The machine does this so perfectly that no one can tell that they are communicating with a machine and not a hidden human being.
Chinese room argument, thought experiment by the American philosopher John Searle, first presented in his journal article “Minds, Brains, and Programs” (1980), designed to show that the central claim of what Searle …
The Chinese room argument is a thought experiment of John Searle. It is one of the best known and widely credited counters to claims of artificial intelligence (AI), that is, to claims that …
The Chinese Room Thought Experiment. Searle imagines himself in a locked room where he is given pages with Chinese writing on them. He does not know Chinese. He does not even …
Searle (1999) summarized the Chinese Room argument concisely: Imagine a native English speaker who knows no Chinese locked in a room full of boxes of Chinese …
Searle introduced the Chinese Room in a paper published in 1980, called ‘Minds, Brains, and Programs’ (Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol.3, no.3). The paper begins with the following thought experiment: Professor Searle is …
John Searle’s Chinese room argument (CRA) is a celebrated thought experiment designed to refute the hypothesis, popular among artificial intelligence (AI) scientists and philosophers of …
Moravec cites Searle’s CRA, and then simply goes on to describe a (near) future in which robots do everything we do, and more | an age in which it is taken for granted that robots have what …