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Ep283 - John Searle | Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence

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The Computer Doesn't Understand the Story

The idea was that you give the computer a story and then you ask the computer questions about the story. And the computer would give the correct answer to the questions even though the answer was not contained in the story. So there I was on my way to New Haven in United Airlines at 30,000 feet and I thought, well, hell, they could give me these stories in Chinese and I could follow the computer program for answering stories but I don't understand a word of the story. Well, it turned out they hadn't thought of it and everybody was convinced I was wrong. But interestingly, they all had different reasons for thinking I was wrong and they are arguing has gone on longer than

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