[halyconWays]

Searle's Chinese Room experiment but without knowing what's in the room, and when you try to peek in you just see a cloud of fog and are left to wonder if it's just a guy with that really big dictionary or something more intelligent.

[selridge]

It's an octopus, perhaps: https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.463.pdf

There's also this blog post: https://julianmichael.org/blog/2020/07/23/to-dissect-an-octo... (which IMO is better to read than the paper)