Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
by CamperBob2 on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @03:00PM
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God, I hate that stupid Chinese Room argument. It's even dumber than the Turing Test concept, which has always been more about the interviewer than about the entity being tested.
If you ask the guy in the Chinese room who won WWI, then yes, as Searles points out, he will oblige without "knowing" what he is telling you. Now ask him to write a brand-new Python program without "knowing" what exactly you're asking for. Go on, do it, see how it goes, and compare it to what you get from an LLM.
If you ask the guy in the Chinese room who won WWI, then yes, as Searles points out, he will oblige without "knowing" what he is telling you. Now ask him to write a brand-new Python program without "knowing" what exactly you're asking for. Go on, do it, see how it goes, and compare it to what you get from an LLM.