Questions tagged [chinese-room-argument]
For questions relating to the concept of the Chinese Room Argument.
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How does one prove comprehension in machines?
Say we have a machine and we give it a task to do (vision task, language task, game, etc.), how can one prove that a machine actually know's what's going on/happening in that specific task?
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“If you can't tell, does it matter?” [Westworld]
"If you can't tell, does it matter?" was one of the first lines of dialogue of the Westworld television series, presented as a throwaway in the first episode of the first season, in response to the ...
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Is the Cognitive Approach (SOAR) equivalent to the Chinese Room argument?
Soar is a cognitive architecture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soar_(cognitive_architecture)
https://soar.eecs.umich.edu/
There is something called "the Chinese box" or "Chinese room" argument: ...
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Why is the Chinese Room argument such a big deal?
I've been re-reading the Wikipedia article on the Chinese Room argument and I'm... actually quite unimpressed by it. It seems to me to be largely a semantic issue involving the conflation of various ...
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Does the Chinese Room argument hold against AI?
Back in college, I had a Complexity Theory teacher who stated that artificial intelligence was a contradiction in terms. If it could be calculated mechanically, he argued, it wasn't intelligence, it ...
asked Aug 2 '16 at 19:42
S.L. Barth - Reinstate Monica
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