LLMs: Chinese Room Argument, AI Intelligence and Sentience

There is a 1980 paper, "Mind, Brains and Programs", describing what is known as the Chinese Room Argument where the author wrote, "Suppose that I'm locked in a room and given a large batch of Chinese writing. Suppose furthermore (as is indeed the case) that I know no Chinese, either written or spoken, and that I'm not even confident that I could recognize Chinese writing as Chinese writing distinct from, say, Japanese writing or meaningless squiggles. To me, Chinese writing is just so many meaningless squiggles."

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