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Conversational AI War Begins. Who Will Be the Winner?

FEB 28, 2023 Andy Cho, a Principal Professional of Samsung SDS

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- Chinese Room Argument, an Argument against Turing Test
American philosopher John Searle has conducted a thought experiment, which is now generally known as the Chinese Room Argument. The argument shows that the Turing Test is not an adequate indicator to determine whether AI can think like humans.

In the experiment, Searle (who does not know Chinese) imagines himself in a room, and a Chinese speaker outside the room passes him messages under the door. Searle has boxes of Chinese characters and a book of instructions. Searle selects an appropriate response using the instructions and sends his reply to the Chinese speaker. The result is that the Chinese person outside the door would think that the person on the other side can speak Chinese, which is not true. This thought experiment shows that even an AI system that has passed the Turing Test can converse with humans and does not need to understand human languages. Searle argues that computers merely choose an answer considering the context but do not understand the meaning of a question like a human. In conclusion, the experiment is against the Turing Test; meaning passing the Turing Test does not mean that computers have cognitive abilities equivalent to that of humans.

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