John Searle’s Chinese Room Argument was intended to ______.

a. demonstrate the functional equivalence of artificial intelligence to human intelligence
b. dispute the claim that artificial intelligences possess understanding
c. demonstrate the multiple realizability of mental states
d. demonstrate the validity of the Turing test


Answer: b. dispute the claim that artificial intelligences possess understanding

Psychology

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