[roywiggins]

Oh, yes, that's what I'm referring to as a chatbot- something built specifically to converse by modeling natural language, rather than trying to model cognition at any deeper level. Not that we can do that successfully either, but at least trying to tackle that has an honest chance of working.

This sort of feels like an updated version of Searle's argument... a chatbot is an awful lot like his 'Chinese room.'

[marcinzm]

Got it. I think the paper actually makes a reference to 'Chinese rooms.'