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The Chinese Room

Key points

  • concept: producing a behavior which is then interpreted by the user as demonstrating intelligent conversation
  • infer: without “understanding” (or “intentionality”), we cannot describe what the machine is doing as “thinking” and, since it does not think, it does not have a “mind” in anything like the normal sense of the word.
  • conclusion: the “strong AI” hypothesis is false.
  • Strong AI vs. biological naturalism: dk???

From the definition

  • How to understand a totally different thing from the concept?

  • How can we make computers to understand human emotions and human feelings

  • Even if a computer can do as human do, think as human thoughts, is it really on the same level of us?

  • How to learn Chinese from English dictionary?

  • What is the concept of computer programing?

  • If computers are set up a goal, we giving them abilities from executing programes, are they actually having to ability to do something, or they are just acting like humans while executing the programs.

  • If they pass the turing test, then it is human?

  • Is there real strong Artificial Intelligence?

  • All the doubts are not limiting the amount of intelligence a machine can display.

Other Doubts

  • What is the Turing test in music composition?
  • We can not tell which composition is made by human and which is made by machine?
  • If we find some music piece interesting, is it meaningful?
  • If we find some human composiiton boring and strange, is it meaningful?
  • What’s the border line between human composition and computer generated music if you can not tell the difference from listening to the music they made?
  • The intension, the passion and how much they want to convey through the emotional expression?
  • Human are social animals, so music is kind of connection? Music shoudl be meaningful in the social way?
  • What is art? Is it only the pursuit of human? Only human creation?
  • Artificial intelligence should be a human, able to understand and express emotion, then their works can be recognized as meaningful music.
  • Every music has its soul?

Reading

  1. “Minds, Brains, and Programs”,John Searle
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room