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Episode 40 - The Chinese Room
Can a machine ever truly understand? Or is it only following rules, shuffling symbols without meaning? In this episode, we explore John Searle’s “Chinese Room” thought experiment—what it reveals about artificial intelligence, and what it asks us about the difference between imitation and understanding.
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