American philosopher John Searle, widely known for his famous "Chinese room" argument produced in 1980, has died aged 93, per philosophy news website Daily Nous . The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

As natural language models and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots improve, AI is becoming more successful at convincing us that it is human. But this doesn't mean that it is conscious , or has any understanding of the conversations that it is taking part in. Essentially, it receives an input and applies an algorithm, which gives the output that is statistically more likely to please (and be coherent to) the human in front of it.

The question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) can be conscious has been debated sinc

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