The Chinese Room and the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence

The Chinese Room is a thought experiment that explains why artificial intelligence is not truly intelligent. In the experiment, imagine yourself in a room with Chinese characters coming in and you have to guess how to respond without actually understanding Chinese. This demonstrates that AI is just a computational process of trial and error. It's like a computer program. One engineer at Google even believed an AI language model was sentient and fought to keep it running, but ended up getting fired.

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