Tag: Chinese
Top Five Questions on the Origin of Language — Answered!
We aren’t even sure which is the world’s oldest spoken language, though Hebrew, Arabic, and Chinese have impressively long histories.
Artificial General Intelligence: Machines vs. Organisms
It may seem that I’m picking too much on Ray Kurzweil. But he and I have been crossing paths for a long time.
Passing the Turing Test Is No Guarantee of True AI
A person who speaks no Chinese whatsoever inhabits a room full of file cabinets full of questions and answers — all written in Chinese.
Blind Ambition — Revisiting Searle’s Chinese Room
For the most part, computer scientists have tended to ignore Searle’s argument and the point of view that it represents.
New Book: For This Scientist, Science Did Not Point to Atheism
Kepler was not alone. Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, and many others who established modern science were deeply religious thinkers.