Like great art, great thought experiments have implications unintended by their creators. Take philosopher John Searle’s Chinese room experiment. Searle concocted it to convince us that computers ...

American philosopher John Searle, widely known for his famous "Chinese room" argument produced in 1980, has died aged 93, per philosophy news website Daily Nous. As natural language models and ...

Imagine you were locked inside a room full of drawers that are stacked with papers containing strange and enigmatic symbols. In the centre of the room is a table with a massive instruction manual in ...