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"John R. Searle's Chinese Room." (2003-2004): n. pag. Web. 4 Feb 2011. .

This article is a summary of John R. Searle’s Chinese room argument. The argument tries to show that strong artificial intelligence (AI) is false. Searle’s experiment is conducted by having a closed room with two slots and a rulebook. Chinese characters are inputted through one slot and you use the rulebook to construct more Chinese characters. The new characters are outputted through the other slot. This experiment shows AI to be false because the new Chinese characters are only being created following rules and there is a complete lack of understanding of what is actually being produced. Even with being given the rulebook, you would never understand the meanings of the characters you are creating.

This article is important in the field of education because it proves a sense of a lack of understanding. When I read this article, I thought about the fact that people don’t always understand the full context in which they are writing. When someone is asked to respond to a prompt, I feel like the instructions sometimes serve as a rulebook and the output is just answering the questions in the prompt and aimed at satisfying the reader. The response doesn’t always pay attention to the understanding of what they are writing about, but simply producing an output.