What is the Chinese room argument?
John Searle's 1980 thought experiment claims that running a program, however convincing its output, cannot give a computer real understanding of language.
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Do large language models understand meaning or just predict words?
Language models are trained to predict words. Researchers disagree on whether this yields understanding, and the answer depends on how meaning and understanding are defined.
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What is the Turing test, and what would passing it show?
Alan Turing's 1950 test asks whether a machine can converse so humanly that a judge cannot reliably tell it from a person. Whether passing shows real intelligence is disputed.
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