Chinese Room Experiment

[esl]

Imagine a windowless room with a clerk inside. The clerk only speaks English. The job of the clerk is to provide answers to visitors, who only speak Chinese. How can this be possible? Well, our clerk has a big book of rules, something like a very complex phrase book, which describes how one can manipulate given strings of Chinese characters to

Comments

[dennisgorelik]

What you are trying to say is:
{Clerk + Chinese dictionary} system is a system that can understand Chinese, even though components of that system (either clerk or Chinese dictionary) cannot understand Chinese.

[esl]

Yes.
In this experiment, in the most general case, the clerk is given a book with instructions on how to build an "intelligence". The decision graph he has to build on paper can be similar to the signal path in the brain of a Chinese speaker who sees that question.

[ex_juan_gan]

Эту задачу я решал с применением обратной связи. Моя болталка (сваха электронная обыкновенная), если чего не понимала, то переспрашивала; а переспросив, запоминала, и в следующий раз, если спросят, то отвечала, что это такое. Синекдоха отвечания была.

Через несколько месяцев народ с ней уже беседовал как с живой.