Philosopher John Searle published his famous “Chinese Room” thought experiment, targeting the concept of Strong AI. He demonstrated that a machine executing operations on textual symbols could perfectly simulate an understanding of the Chinese language despite lacking any internal consciousness or semantic comprehension of what it was processing.
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