. . . "Of course this snide metaphor makes exactly the same error as the Chinese Room thought experiment, so much so that it inspired me to think about it some more and to expand on what I said previously.The pattern of Searle's anti-AI analogies could be generalized thusly: (1) We set out to show that entity A cannot possibly perform action X (in this case, A is a future computerized AI and X is thin" .