Turing Test Vs Chinese Room Experiment

Now the big question that searle asks is well i the person inside the box or the person inside the room don t understand chinese.

Turing test vs chinese room experiment.

On the surface they both seem to be similar tests. Outside of the room someone give to him through a slot texts in. The difference is that the chinese room argument is not intended as a test. In the experiment searle imagines himself in a room acting as a computer by manually executing a program that convincingly simulates the behavior of a native chinese speaker.

So when the chinese expert on the other end of the room is verifying the answers he actually is communicating with another mind which thinks in chinese. People outside the room slide chinese characters under the door and searle to whom chinese writing is just so many meaningless squiggles 1 is able to create sensible. The program enables the person in the room to pass the turing test for understanding chinese but he does not understand a word of chinese. On the other hand according t o american philosopher john searle said that the turing test was inadequate.

In fact you re realizing something like a machine that would pass turing s test. The turing test and the chinese room. Searle goes on to say the point of the argument is this. So the chinese speaker outside really believes that she s conversing with another chinese speaker.

To show it john searle proposed the mental experiment of the chinese room that consist in a person that doesn t know chinese closed in a room with the manuals of rules and symbols to translate the chinese. And mikhail about the chinese room experiment and the turing test. The chinese room has all the elements of a turing complete machine and thus is capable of simulating any digital computation whatsoever. Insists that if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck it s a duck.

Mikhail insists he and t o m. If searle s room can t pass the turing test then there is no other digital technology that could pass the turing test. Do not think alike. In both rooms there are slips of paper with messages written in chinese.

The texts or the set of instructions cannot be dissociated from the man in the experiment because this instruction in turn is prepared by some native chinese person. In the turing test the particular behavior that is tested is holding a conversation in natural language. In both rooms there are two audio logs of a discussion between t o m. The argument and thought experiment are now generally known as the chinese room argument.