American philosopher John Searle, widely known for his famous "Chinese room" argument produced in 1980, has died aged 93, per philosophy news website Daily Nous. As natural language models and ...

Imagine you were locked inside a room full of drawers that are stacked with papers containing strange and enigmatic symbols. In the centre of the room is a table with a massive instruction manual in ...

Over two decades ago, psychologists argued strongly against the computational view that meaning could arise from combining arbitrary linguistic symbols. The most famous argument that computers cannot ...

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