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The argument was first presented by philosopher John Searle in his paper, Minds,

Brains, and Programs, published in Behavioural and Brain Sciences in 1980.

Imagine you are in a closed room. Somebody passing by the room slips a sheet of

paper under the door containing a list of questions written in the Chinese language.
But you don’t know Chinese at all. Now, suppose you have an instructional
manual written in English that can help you translate the questions as is. Using

the instructions, you answer the questions and submit the paper to the person
outside the room. Upon reading your answers, the person is convinced that you

understand Chinese.

But did you really know Chinese?

You can conduct this experiment in the class with Google Translate!

Now, discuss with your classmates:

• If a program can execute a set of instructions just like you did, does it mean
that it is intelligent?

• Does it have a brain of its own?

• How different is it from a Rule engine or expert system?

• Does it pass the Turing Test?

• Is this a case of overfitting of data?

Discuss with your peers and note down your observations in the box below:

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