[arey_abhishek]

AI will never understand the actual context because not everything we feel/experience can be captured and communicated to a machine. For example, human language is incomplete and doesn’t encode every information because it doesn’t need to when used with other humans.

I think it’s a romantic notion to imagine that AI will not be a Chinese room.

Even human intelligence feels like a Chinese room. Especially noticeable when using complicated devices like flight controls. I’ve been playing the MSFT Flight simulator, and I don’t fully understand the relationship between the different instruments. But I can still fly planes(virtually).

We’d be better off if we considered AI similar to an appliance like a microwave or a refrigerator. Does a fridge need to understand or taste what’s inside it to be helpful?

[Sakos]

AI will never understand the actual context until we give it the same access to a physical and metaphysical environment that we have, as well as similar ways to navigate them. I still believe we're at most a few decades away from AGI, but it's going to take a step above what we're doing with ML. Though if we're lucky/unlucky, ML will pidgeon hole research so badly that we'll reach a local maxima that will prevent us from finding the right path to AGI.