In this old TV debate from 1984, John Searle (philosophy professor from Berkeley) and Margaret Boden (AI professor from Sussex) debate AI, intelligence, understanding and consciousness. What is remarkable is the intellectual quality of the TV debate. You'd never see a programme like this today on TV, which has been totally dumbed down. Secondly, Searle's argument, namely the Chinese Room, is still just as relevant to ChatGPT as it was to the comparatively dumb AI of the 80s. Can a computer shuffling 1s and 0s according to a program understand anything?
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