Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Article reading #1:Chinese Room

In the field of computer science. There are four concepts that developed by computer sciencetists that consider to be important to understand Chinese Room.
Strong AI is the first concept that they mentioned. Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig observe that most AI researchers "don't care about the strong AI hypothesis—as long as the program works, they don't care whether you call it a simulation of intelligence or real intelligence."In my own opinion, this is what I was thinking. However, Searle's idea is to sets no limit on this is a simulation.
One part is symbol processing. The computer manipulates the symbol without really understand the meaning to what they process of. This is like what the computer does in Searle's mind.

They assume Chinese Room as Turing machine too. This is mainly because the author thinks Chinese room has all the ability that Turing machine also has. A Turing machine simply consist with a program, memory,CPU, and tools to write the memory. Based on this context, I do think Chinese room can actually act as Turing machine.
The last part is Turing test. This simply is a test that a judge will ask question to the machine and human. however, he would not know if he is actually asking a human or machine. If he cannot reliably tell the difference between them, then the machine passed the test.
So after understand these four concepts, I will summarize the Chinese Room concept below. Suppose there is a computer that understand Chinese, and it takes Chinese as input and output Chinese. It will follow some kind of program that been designed. The idea is did the computer really understand Chinese or not. Searle argues that the computer doesn't understand Chinese. He then later talk about how he 
After reading this Chinese Room, I have many concerns about this topic.First is that has this problem been solved. I found the answer in the reading which is no, and there are many people question about how correct that Searle set this room. This is very important to a research like this, and in my own opinion, I do think he set this correct without any biased factor. Other than that, there are many replies to this idea. Also I have a reply to Chinese Room which is 

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