Outside the Chinese Room
Unknown to Searle, his jailers …
- regard the in-tray as containing input from a Chinese player of Turing’s imitation game
- the rule books as containing an AI program
- regard the out-tray as containing responses
Suppose Searle passes the Turing Test in Chinese
But Searle still does not understand Chinese
By analogy, even a computer program that passes the Turing test does not truly “understand”