Why has no one brought up John Searle and the Chinese room? https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

There are no significant new philosophical issues arising from recent large language models which haven't already been discussed to death in philosophy since Searle published on this in 1980. If you believe in functionalism then you will continue to believe in functionalism when presented with the evidence from LLMs and if you don't believe in functionalism then you will continue to not believe in it when presented with the evidence from LLMs. (same applies to naturalism/materialism/determinism) Nothing about LLMs is different in principle from what Searle addressed or is going to move the needle in any direction.

I would suggest next time asking an LLM if anyone's made your argument before and responded to it before.

(later edit) BTW, I have a sneaking suspicion of why nobody's brought up John Searle. It might be because #MeToo was used to cancel him in 2019 in order to push his argument about AI and philosophy of mind out of the mainstream. Can't have credible intellectuals around who might make you question what government, megacorporations and AI say.

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