On 2019-08-25 11:55, John Hasler wrote:
Followed a link there to read about the Chinese Room thought experiment by John Searle:It can be plausibly argued that ELIZA passed the Turing test. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#ELIZA_and_PARRY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_roomFascinating stuff, both the argument he made and attempts to refute it, eg the "Brain Replacement Scenario".
It's a long page, and I started skimming about half-way... -- John