Chapter 98: A Miss Is As Good As a Mile
Chen Ran walked out of the Secret Room's main door.
The others checked the time. Barely ten minutes had passed, and he had already cleared the [Hard] difficulty?
"What did this Escape Room Game test?" Geng Hao asked out of curiosity.
"The two conflicting theories on whether an AI can develop self-awareness," Chen Ran replied casually.
Hearing this, Qiu Yinong's interest was piqued. She had run a gaming company before her death and knew quite a bit about artificial intelligence.
"In that case, Liu Xing is doomed," she noted. "Coming out this quickly means you chose the simplest explanation, the Chinese Room Argument. In this controversial theory, AI is merely a transporter of text and images, completely lacking any understanding of their meaning. This falls under Materialism, while the second conflicting theory leans toward Idealism."
Chen Ran nodded, found a random place to sit, and closed his eyes to rest.
Geng Hao only half-understood and turned his gaze toward the Young Heiress.
Lin Jiabei pondered for a moment before explaining, "The so-called Chinese Room Argument involves placing someone who knows English, but not Chinese, inside a locked room. On their desk is a Chinese-English dictionary. Then, someone on the outside hands them a paper filled with Chinese characters and asks them to translate it."