The Chinese room is a deeply confused thought experiment. It starts from the (unstated) assumption that humans are magic, and all it asserts is that computers can&#x27;t be magic.<p>The argument even says that it might be possible to create AIs that are just as intelligent as humans, and which behave exactly the same as humans. All it suggests is that such AIs won&#x27;t be magic. Unlike humans, which it assumes are magic.<p>That anyone ever took this argument seriously is amazing and sad.