To understand this new wave of technology with ChatGPT at the forefront, we can start with John Searle’s famous Chinese Room thought experiment from 1980, which conceals the most annoying stereotype of computational machines in the guise of…[^3]: Hans Blumenberg, “Progress Exposed as Fate,” chap. 3 of part 1, in The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, trans. Robert M. Wallace (MIT Press, 1985).
[^4]: John. R. Searle, “Minds, Brains, and Programs,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3, n…
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