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Further complicating the notion of AGI are critiques by philosophers like Hubert Dreyfus and John Searle. Dreyfus argues that human expertise extends beyond mere computation and requires an embodied understanding of the world, which machines overwrite. In his famous Chinese Room argument, Searle illustrates that AI may manipulate symbols effectively (like a language translation program) without ever truly understanding the underlying meaning. It’s a cautionary illustration that showcases the limits of AI’s capabilities in achieving genuine comprehension.