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@cstross I'm kind of glad that Searle's 'chinese room' never got media attention (even though it's a reasonable refutation of the concepts behind them, simply because I can't see that going anywhere but extremely racist.

On a message board I am on, someone excitedly shared that apparently chatGPT can play chess at a high level- for orders of magnitude more cost and resources than actual chess AIs, and not nearly as well. So, uselessly. This seemed an accurate metaphor for the entire concept.