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The Chinese Room Experiment

Of Simulations, Strong and weak AIs

The Chinese room is an Artificial Intelligence thought experiment that helps frame one of the most thorny issues in AI which to some boils down to “can we recreate the human mind in software ?”

It is also a good place to talk about the distinction between Strong and Weak AIs, but first let’s go over the experiment…