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…If the opposition between mechanism and organism characterizes a grand debate of modern philosophy, determining the direction of its development, then the debate persists today, when so many of the statements discrediting AI and ChatGPT ass…
John Searle
philosopher · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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John Searle is a philosopher known for the Chinese Room argument, a foundational critique of whether machines can genuinely understand language or merely simulate it through syntactic rule-following. The course readings invoke Searle to problematize naive mechanistic assumptions about AI and to highlight the philosophical stakes of the mechanism-versus-organism divide that continues to shape contemporary debates about artificial intelligence and its capacities.
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