Research and Reflections
John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment has long stood as a powerful critique against machine understanding. But AI has changed dramatically since 1980. Connectionist models, embodied agents, and large-scale systems challenge the foundational assumptions behind the Chinese Room. The question is whether it's becoming a mind.
Read full postI have been rewatching the old Star Wars films. As a child, they were pure adventure. Heroes, villains, starships, and lightsabers. But now, seeing them again as an adult, the stories reveal something deeper. Our world feels like it is on the edge of its own pivotal moment, where the challenge is no longer how to build, but what to build and why.
Read full postI remember the first time I watched a neural network generate text that sounded exactly like a person. It was uncanny. Poetic, even. But as I watched it speak, I felt something weird - not amazement, but a kind of hollowness. It was mimicking intelligence perfectly, but it didn't mean anything.
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