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Is the "Chinese room" an explanation of how ChatGPT works?
As many have stated, the Chinese room analogy is intended to show that any hardware + software instance that relies on rules alone (logical operators on input symbols) cannot be said to have ...
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Is the "Chinese room" an explanation of how ChatGPT works?
The chinese room argument is useless because it can be applied to the brain as well. Replace the slit with sensory input, the handbook with the wiring of the brain and the activity of the agent inside ...
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Is the "Chinese room" an explanation of how ChatGPT works?
I suggest it makes all the difference in the world whether 'the knowledge' was acquired by parsing many examples to get 'a feeling for what's right' (AI/learning), or by detailed instructions (...
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Is the "Chinese room" an explanation of how ChatGPT works?
Searle's Chinese room is not intended as a functional description of any real-world machine. Searle was a philosopher who created the Chinese room as a thought experiment to show what he considered an ...
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Is the "Chinese room" an explanation of how ChatGPT works?
Yes it is a good analogy, as explained nicely by Neil.
Regarding your second question:
how far is AI from models that can actually understand (for some
definition of "understand") textual ...
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Is the "Chinese room" an explanation of how ChatGPT works?
Yes, the Chinese Room argument by John Searle essentially demonstrates that at the very least it is hard to locate intelligence in a system based on its inputs and outputs. And the ChatGPT system is ...
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