The Chinese Room Argument

The Chinese room argument suggests that AI that mimics human intelligence doesn't actually understand what it's talking about. The philosopher John Searle argued, this is just what's happening inside a computer. No matter how intelligent a program like Chachi PT seems to be, it's only following sets of instructions to spit out answers. It's manipulating symbols without ever really understanding what it's doing. And there's a deeper reason to be suspicious too, because despite the incredible successes of large language models, we also see that they don't have any meaningful model of the world.