For those not in the know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
Very first words:
The Chinese room argument holds that a computer executing a program cannot have a mind, understanding, or consciousness,[a] regardless of how intelligently or human-like the program may make the computer behave.
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But Caine will.
You just have to type "what is a" before that and it pops up. I don't think the llm is choosing not to show us what it is. If it actually did, it wouldn't be as much of a Chinese room as we think, although I guess it could emulate deception just as well as anything else (as in the blackmail thing from a while back).
As long as you accept that the understanding is embedded in the software, not in the computer.
What a useless conclusion to take from a really insightful argument. Also, there's nothing forcing AI to resemble the Chinese room, it's a computer running it, not a look-up machine.
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