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Does an AI understand what it says?
Searle imagined a man in a room answering Chinese messages perfectly by following a rulebook, without understanding a word. Today's machines answer in every language.
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A little context
You ask a chatbot something hard, and its answer is better than the one a friend would have given. It catches the nuance and gets the joke. Somewhere in you a voice insists that it doesn't actually understand any of it. The question is what that voice is pointing at, and how you would ever check.
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