Searle's Chinese Room Experiment: An Analysis

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Turing, a physicalist, believed that artificial intelligence could be achieved in the future. Turing argued that the mind was merely due to the physical aspects of the brain and so a machine could one day be created that has a mind of its own, i.e. artificial intelligence. He created a test called the Turing Test to determine whether a machine has artificial intelligence. In the Turing Test, an interrogator asks two subjects a series of questions. One of the subjects is a person, the other is the computer. The goal is for the person to imitate a computer and the computer to imitate the person. If the interrogator is fooled into thinking that the computer is the human then the computer, according to Turing, is concluded to have the ability to think and thus, have a mind. Turing argued that machines passing the Turing Test were sufficient for ascribing thought.

The most prominent example of the concept of a machine being intelligent in the manner of this so

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where they had a man under cover and asked him questions. If he got the answer wrong he was

The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effect of a change on a system at an equilibrium. I will learn how temperature and pressure affects a chemical reaction. During this experiment, I will observe the physicals changes when the solutions are mixed and determine the shift of the equilibrium. I think the only reaction I will have will be color change, when the different solutions are added together.

Even with the correct programming a computer cannot freely think for itself, with its own conscious thought. John Searle is a philosopher of mind and language at UC Berkeley. Searle’s Chinese Room Argument is against the premise of Strong AI. He argues that even though a computer may have the ability to compute the use of syntax (Weak AI), a computer could not be able to understand the meaning behind the words it is communicating. Semantics convey both intentional and un-intentional content in communication. Though a computer could be programmed to recognize which words would convey the correct meaning of a symbol. This,

The essay “Watson Doesn’t Know It Won on Jeopardy!” is a paper written by John Searle on February 23, 2011 that probes at how IBM’s computer Watson has no human understanding whatsoever. Searle begins by clearing up the common misconceptions about what a computer actually is. Searle explains that a computer is simply a machine that manipulates symbols based on a programs needs and wants, and that the computational power of a computer is not human understanding; it is in fact a measure of how fast a computer can manipulate symbols. Searle then proceeds to explain the process of how a computer works in terms of a human. He explains that a computer does not understand human language at all. A computer just has a program (in binary) that tells

The experiment was to have Watson compete in a popular game show called Jeopardy. The robot was able to play with human contestants a live host. Watson was able to play and answer questions because had storage of documents in his software. Some of the programs he had embedded into him were the encyclopedias, dictionaries, anthologies.   The robot was able to look through multiple documents encrypted in him to find the answer.

On a deserted island a boy is tied up, and beaten for no reason while others stand by to watch. One man repeatedly shocks another man, even though he knows that it will be fatal. They both scream for mercy; one is spared, but the other is not so lucky. The “Stanley Milgram Experiment” and the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding both show how people will listen to authority even if they know what they are doing is causing harm.

However, Kelly executes his claim in an inappropriate manner by using fallacies and biased examples. In the article “Call them Artificial Aliens,” Kelly explains how artificial intelligence is one form of thinking that is completely different from human intelligence. He talks about how AI is capable of playing chess, driving cars, or identifying an individual’s face through a photograph, and that human brains cannot handle this much information at a time. Supposedly, scientists will one day create a machine with AI that can think much faster and deeper than any human mind.

Reinhold Koehler, born in 1919 in Dortmund and died in 1970 in Siegen, was a German painter, printmaker, poet, and essayist, arguably one of the most interesting of the recently re-discovered artists. Self-taught as an artist, Koehler began to immerse himself in fine arts during the time of World War II, when he served as a soldier on the Eastern Front. There he executed his first watercolours, a technique which remained his favorite in the first period of his artistic activity, with nature, landscape and female nude as his leading subjects. Nevertheless, with the beginning of the new decade, Koehler began to experiment, boldly osciliating between techniques. Consequently, turning to abstraction, in 1954, the artist started to incorporate sand

The CRAV performed perfectly throughout all of its trials and tribulations. From the beginning we did hours of programming and testing on the CRAV for each task to ensure that it was in it’s optimal operating capabilities.

The Crucial Experiment. Newtons most famous experiment, the experimentum crucis, demonstrated his theory of the composition of light. Briefly, in a dark room Newton allowed a narrow beam of sunlight to pass from a small hole in a window shutter through a prism, thus breaking the white light into an oblong spectrum on a board.

The assumption is that the person is capable of understanding Chinese, simply because he can manage to assemble a set of answers to questions that would be indistiquishable from a person who speaks Chinese. The problem is that the person in the room does not understand any of the answers, but is simply following instructions. Searle utilizes a system’s ability to pass the Turing test as a parameter in the study, though the person would still indeed not understand Chinese. Searle proceeds to refute the claims of strong AI one at a time, by positioning himself as the one who manipulates the Chinese symbols. The first claim is that a system, which can pass the Turing test, understands the input and output. Searle replies that as the "computer" in the Chinese room, he gains no understanding of Chinese by simply manipulating the symbols according to the formal program, in this case being the complex rules. (Searle, 1980) It was not necessary for the operator to have any understanding of what the interviewer is asking, or the replies that produced. He may not even know that there is a question and answer session going on outside the room.