The Chinese Room is not merely intended as a refutation of Strong AI, but also as demonstration of the unreliability of the Turing Test for intelligence. According to John Searle, the Chinese Room passes the Turing Test without being intelligent in the relevant sense, therefore passing the Turing Test is not sufficient for having intelligence. It is, partially, for this reason that Searle reintroduces all the chauvinistic and prejudicial preconditions for intelligence (I will use the terms ‘intelligence’, ‘conscious’ and ‘understanding’ rather interchangeably) that Turing attempted to dispose of with his test in the form of causal powers. (more…)
