This is where I collect and write things, mostly on academe and artificial intelligence. Established in 2010, by Vaishak Belle.
An interesting follow up thought regarding the Searle Chinese room remark is that what if it’s not a look up table in the traditional sense, but rather a distribution, which is a more compact representation of the data. Then this means that the system utters responses based on tokens and prompts in the user’s interaction. Not dissimilar to chatGPT.
Such a statement could be seen as not having an “understanding” of the language. However, precisely because concepts and terms are not grounded in reality, they’d be prone to make mistakes lots of time. Uttering plausible responses but also nonsense a lot of the time. Not unlike chatGPT.