Chinese Room

By Ewan

Fri, 31 Oct 2008

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The input and the output are
formed from the same character set.
You conclude that we have like minds
- but I could be mitigated
by complex programming routines.
What you mistake for a heartbeat
could be a Polish Reverse Expression,
for all either of us know.

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Yes, I find the concept of

Permalink Submitted by Ewan on Fri, 2008-10-31 11:39

Yes, I find the concept of AI fascinating. Thinking about it, what if Hofstadter's Backwards Turing Paradox (apart from being a great title for something) were the difficulty of proving whether it was a human, or a computer that had persuaded someone that they were a human trying to persuade someone they were computer?

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Of course the point at which

Permalink Submitted by Ewan on Fri, 2008-10-31 11:43

Of course the point at which an intelligent machine becomes a sentient being is the point at which it stops being a machine. Asimov spent rather a lot of books exploring that. His reward? Will Smith in I, Robot. No intelligence of any kind in Hollywood, then.