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Re:Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT by edouard-harris on Sunday December 04, 2022 @04:17PM (#33857976)
> For what it's worth, Searle is a naturalist (so he thinks brains are "just" meaty machines) and he would also disagree with you.

I definitely disagree that Searle's conclusion in the Chinese room experiment applies to the kinds of AI systems we're building today.

I agree that nobody to my knowledge has figured out how to measure sentience, so I don't think that fits under the "measurable" heading. And this does suggest to me — because this was your hand-picked example — that your position as a substance dualist doesn't affect your concrete expectations about what AI systems will actually be able to do in the future. Is that right?

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Re:Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT by dvt on Sunday December 04, 2022 @05:26PM (#33858635)
> I definitely disagree that Searle's conclusion in the Chinese room experiment applies to the kinds of AI systems we're building today.

Unless you're trying to say that today's AI systems do anything but manipulate symbols (which is imo patently obvious), I'm not sure how you can make that argument.

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