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I enjoy philosophy of mind like Dan Dennet's work, especially relevant to A.I. is the question, what is human intelligence, mind, consciousnes, creativity.

John Searle's Chinese room has occupied my thoughts for years. Now Convolutional Neural Net's that translate Chinese to English and answer questions lead me to believe that the guy in the Searle's Chinese room is redundant.

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It sounds like you haven't actually understood that argument. "The guy in the room" has always been a minor detail. Furthermore, machine translation has existed since before convolutional neural nets, so your whole point falls under the "not even wrong" category.

Your categorisation of my speculation assumes too much.

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