{"id":8098,"date":"2022-07-20T17:05:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8098"},"modified":"2022-07-20T17:05:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:05:02","slug":"gpt-3-on-searles-chinese-room-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8098","title":{"rendered":"GPT-3 on Searle&#8217;s Chinese room argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>AI: I am an AI created by OpenAI. How can I help you today?Human: What do you think about the use of the Chinese room argument to defend the claim that a chatbot can never really understand what it is saying?AI: The Chinese room argument is a thought experiment that was first proposed by John Searle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/blakeamyers2\/home\">Blake Myers<\/a> has posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/blakeamyers2\/gpt-3-interactions\">number of conversations<\/a> they have had with <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/gpt-3-apps\/\">Open AI&#8217;s GPT-3,<\/a> including one titled, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/blakeamyers2\/gpt-3-on-searles-chinese-room-argument\">GPT-3 on Searle&#8217;s Chinese room argument<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>What is intriguing is that Myers has had discussions about specific philosophical issues around AI including the Chinese room argument and GPT-3 appears to have answered coherently. The transcripts or short dialogues are made available and in some cases are not edited.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help imagining how this could be used by a smart student to write a paper dialogically. One could ask questions, edit the responses, concatenate them, and write some bridging text to get a decent paper. Of course, it might be less work to just write the paper yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI: I am an AI created by OpenAI. How can I help you today?Human: What do you think about the use of the Chinese room argument to defend the claim that a chatbot can never really understand what it is saying?AI: The Chinese room argument is a thought experiment that was first proposed by John &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8098\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GPT-3 on Searle&#8217;s Chinese room argument<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,26,58,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-education-and-administration","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-playful-or-cool","category-text-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8099,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8098\/revisions\/8099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}