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@nbro also a good Chinese Room link at Stanford: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

Still, I think your instinct to ask is correct. We need to build this Stack, and the one thing we have going for us is the high search value of SE in general. A question with a simple title, designed for search, and good answers, breaking down the links, would surely benefit SE:AI.

Ideally one of the answers would be suitable for the general audience, avoiding technical language, similar to how shows like Nova do it.

@DuttaA A very good point, but I'd still argue that Kelly's take is fundamentally flawed. Tech Review did publish a brief counter argument by David Silver in which he concludes that "A baby doesn’t worry about its career, or how many kids it’s going to have. It is playing with toys and learning manipulation skills. There’s an awful lot to learn about the world in the absence of a final goal. The same can and should be true of our systems."

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612923/how-alphazero-has-rewritten-the-rules-of-gameplay-on-its-own/

@JustinKaz We do have a few NN experts on this site, just that they tend to be busy, and not generally active on chat.

This is a very interesting theoretical question. My advice would be to post and actual question and use the "theorics" and "ai-basics" tag in conjunction with "machine-learning" and "unassisted-learning" tags. Even if your intent is creative (fiction, etc.), that's a legit aspect of the wider scope of the field of AI, where certain writers such as Asimov have used narrative to convey important concepts to the general public, which in turn supports the serious research by…