Machines pass the Turing Test and everyone becomes John Searle
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-26
Emmett Stinson's sharp quip: we've built machines that pass the Turing Test, and everyone's immediate response has been to become John Searle — invoking Chinese Room-style objections that the machines merely manipulate symbols without real understanding.
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