The Importance of Understanding Chinese

Imagine there's a guy in a room and he's closed off from the outside world. There's a Chinese speaker outside the room who can write notes. The guy inside the room has a perfect manual that takes Chinese characters, puts them into English. That is supposed to be a metaphor for what AI is doing. You feed in inputs and you get outputs, but there is no understanding.

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