Not sure why people keep falling into these mental traps.
Regardless of whether the system you're deriding is a "Chinese room", "stochastic parrot", "brute force" or whatever other dericive term-du-jour you want to use, if the system performs the required task, the only thing that actually matters is its cost to operate.
And if that cost is less than paying a human, that human, and society at large is in trouble.
Regardless of whether the system you're deriding is a "Chinese room", "stochastic parrot", "brute force" or whatever other dericive term-du-jour you want to use, if the system performs the required task, the only thing that actually matters is its cost to operate.
And if that cost is less than paying a human, that human, and society at large is in trouble.