# Chinese Room LLM // 257 (preview)

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Podcast: [PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/plasticpills-critical-theory-philosophy-708721)
Published: 2026-07-02T14:00:03+00:00
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## Resource

This week we evaluate a paper written by a Google DeepMind engineer which, in effect updates the Chinese Room Thought Experiment (Searle, 1980) to modern LLMs. Get this episode and hundreds more https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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