Chinese Room

Chinese Room ChatGPT.md

Google translate

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Give a critique that attempts to refute Searle's chinese room. Include something from derrida in your response.

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给出一个试图反驳塞尔中文房间的批评。在您的回复中包含德里达的内容。

ChatGPT

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给出一个试图反驳塞尔中文房间的批评。在您的回复中包含德里达的内容。

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塞尔的中文房间实验旨在反驳强人工智能的可能性，并且引起了许多争议和批评。其中一个批评认为，中文房间实验未能考虑语言和意义的深层结构。

德里达是一位哲学家和语言学家，他认为语言中的意义不是在单词或句子中直接存在的，而是由语言使用者和文化背景等因素共同构建的。在他的著作《限制、结构和游戏》中，他提出了一个概念，称为“无限延伸的游戏”，这个概念可以用来解释语言和意义的复杂性。

在这个概念中，语言使用者不仅仅是被动地接受语言规则和结构，而是在不断地参与和塑造语言的意义和结构。因此，中文房间实验中的人类操作者并不是一个孤立的存在，他的意识和文化背景会影响他对中文的理解和回答。

另外，德里达也强调了语言的无限性和多义性。同样的单词或句子在不同的语境中可能会有不同的意义，而这种多义性是任何自然语言处理算法都难以处理的。因此，即使中文房间实验中的人类操作者能够以某种方式“理解”中文，他们也可能无法真正理解语言中的意义和语境。

因此，德里达的观点为反驳塞尔的中文房间实验提供了有力的支持。这个实验未能考虑语言和意义的深层结构，以及语言使用者对语言的主动塑造作用。

Google translate

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塞尔的中[...]塑造作用。

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Searle's Chinese room experiment was designed to disprove the possibility of strong artificial intelligence, and it has caused a lot of controversy and criticism. One of the criticisms is that the Chinese room experiment failed to take into account the deep structure of language and meaning.

Derrida was a philosopher and linguist who believed that meaning in language does not exist directly in words or sentences, but is constructed by factors such as language users and cultural background. In his book "Constraints, Structure, and Play", he proposed a concept called "games of infinite extension", which can be used to explain the complexity of language and meaning.

In this concept, language users are not just passively accepting language rules and structures, but are constantly participating in and shaping the meaning and structure of language. Therefore, the human operator in the Chinese room experiment is not an isolated existence, and his consciousness and cultural background will affect his understanding and answers to Chinese.

In addition, Derrida also emphasized the infinity and polysemy of language. The same word or sentence may have different meanings in different contexts, and this ambiguity is difficult for any natural language processing algorithm to handle. Therefore, even if human operators in the Chinese room experiment could somehow "understand" Chinese, they might not be able to truly understand the meaning and context in the language.

Derrida's argument thus provides strong support for refuting Searle's Chinese room experiment. This experiment fails to take into account the deep structure of language and meaning, and the active shaping of language by language users.

Chinese Room GPT4.md

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in: Give an intelligent philosophical critique of Searle's chinese room. Take inspiriation from Derrida. Address the emergence of intelligence at scale. Touch on Baudrillard's simulacra how it relates to text prediction engines. Visit Chomsky breifly to eviscerate his ideas. Ultimately conclude, in a convincing way, that machines can and do understand language.

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对塞尔的中文房间进行智慧的哲学批判。从德里达那里汲取灵感。应对大规模智能的出现。了解鲍德里亚的拟像与文本预测引擎的关系。简短地访问乔姆斯基，以剔除他的想法。最终以令人信服的方式得出结论，机器可以并且确实理解语言。

GPT-4

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对塞尔的[..]解语言。

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塞尔的中文房间实验是一个著名的思想实验，旨在证明机器不能真正理解语言。在这个实验中，一个不懂中文的人被关在一个房间里，房间里有一本中文指南，告诉他如何回答中文问题。尽管这个人可以使用指南回答问题，但他并不真正理解中文。塞尔的观点是，即使计算机能够通过某种程序回答语言问题，它们也不会真正理解语言。

然而，从德里达的观点来看，这个实验存在一定的问题。德里达认为，意义并非固定不变的，而是在不断地变化和演绎过程中产生的。因此，我们可以认为，在中文房间实验中，尽管那个人不懂中文，但通过与外部世界的互动，他逐渐建立起了与中文符号相关的意义网络。这种观点认为，理解并不是一种静态的状态，而是一个动态的过程。

对于大规模智能的出现，我们可以从鲍德里亚的拟像理论来分析。鲍德里亚认为，现代社会中的许多现象都是对现实的模拟或模仿，而非现实本身。拟像是一种替代现实的现象，它们模糊了现实与虚构之间的界限。在这种情况下，智能机器可以被看作是拟像，它们模仿人类的思维和语言理解过程，但这并不意味着它们无法理解语言。事实上，通过与现实世界的互动，机器可以逐渐建立起自己的意义网络，从而实现对语言的理解。

从乔姆斯基的观点来看，他认为人类语言能力是与生俱来的，这意味着人类天生就具备了理解和使用语言的能力。然而，这并不意味着机器无法理解语言。事实上，机器可以通过学习和适应来模仿人类的语言能力，从而实现对语言的理解。

综上所述，我们可以得出结论：机器可以并且确实理解语言。尽管塞尔的中文房间实验提出了一种观点，即机器无法真正理解语言，但从德里达、鲍德里亚和乔姆斯基的观点来看，我们可以认为理解是一个动态的过程，而非静态的状态。通过与现实世界的互动，机器可以逐渐建立起自己的意义网络，从而实现对语言的理解。因此，该承认，机器确实具有理解语言的能力。

Google translate

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塞尔的[...]的能力。

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Searle's Chinese Room Experiment is a famous thought experiment designed to prove that machines can't really understand language. In this experiment, a person who does not understand Chinese is locked in a room with a Chinese guidebook telling him how to answer questions in Chinese. Although the man could use the guide to answer questions, he didn't really understand Chinese. Searle's point was that even if computers could be programmed to answer language questions, they wouldn't really understand language.

From Derrida's point of view, however, there are certain problems with this experiment. Derrida believes that meaning is not fixed, but produced in a process of constant change and interpretation. Therefore, we can think that in the Chinese room experiment, although the person does not understand Chinese, he gradually established a meaning network related to Chinese symbols through the interaction with the outside world. In this view, understanding is not a static state but a dynamic process.

For the emergence of large-scale intelligence, we can analyze it from Baudrillard's simulation theory. Baudrillard believes that many phenomena in modern society are simulations or imitations of reality, rather than reality itself. Simulations are an alternative reality phenomenon that blur the lines between reality and fiction. In this context, intelligent machines can be seen as simulacra, which mimic human thinking and language understanding processes, but that doesn't mean they can't understand language. In fact, by interacting with the real world, machines can gradually build up their own network of meanings to understand language.

From Chomsky's point of view, he believes that human language ability is innate, which means that human beings are born with the ability to understand and use language. However, this does not mean that machines cannot understand language. In fact, machines can achieve language understanding by learning and adapting to mimic human language abilities.

Taken together, we can conclude that machines can and do understand language. Although Searle's Chinese room experiment raises the idea that machines cannot really understand language, from the perspective of Derrida, Baudrillard, and Chomsky, we can think of understanding as a dynamic process rather than static state. Through the interaction with the real world, the machine can gradually build up its own meaning network, so as to realize the understanding of language. Therefore, it should be admitted that machines do have the ability to understand language.