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Record 1 2025-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Logic (Philosophy)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Collaboration with WIPO
CONT

John Searle's Chinese room argument(CRA) is a celebrated thought experiment designed to refute the hypothesis, popular among artificial intelligence(AI) scientists and philosophers of mind, that "the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind. "

OBS

Chinese room argument; CRA: designations validated by Canadian subject-field experts from Concordia University, Dalhousie University, Laval University and Microsoft Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logique (Philosophie)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Collaboration avec l'OMPI
CONT

[...] la célèbre réponse de John Searle, connue sous le nom «d'argument de la chambre chinoise», [réfute] l'amalgame entre simulation et réalité. Ce n'est pas parce qu'une machine se comporte comme si elle pensait, qu'elle pense.

OBS

argument de la chambre chinoise : désignation validée par des spécialistes canadiens de l'Université Concordia, de l'Université Dalhousie, de l'Université Laval et de Microsoft Canada.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Lógica (Filosofía)
  • Inteligencia artificial
  • Colaboración con la OMPI
CONT

[...] el filósofo J. Searle desarrolla una serie de argumentos para demostrar que las máquinas no piensan dado que no tienen acceso al sentido. Su argumento de la "cámara china" fue destinado a demostrar que una máquina solo manipula símbolos abstractos pero no comprende su significación.

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Record 2 2020-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Leadership Techniques (Meetings)
  • Mental health and hygiene
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

The first thing [that is recommended] is to take an hour aside to do a braindump. The concept of a braindump was made popular by the book "Getting Things Done" where the author suggests that your mind is a very poor task storage.... By dumping all the tasks you store in your mind into a system you trust, your mind will stop bugging you.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques d'animation des réunions
  • Hygiène et santé mentales
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Técnicas de liderazgo (Reuniones)
  • Higiene y salud mental
  • Fraseología de los lenguajes especializados
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Record 3 2010-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pets
CONT

The Flatworm Phylum includes two groups of well-known parasitic species; the Tapeworms ... and Flukes .... These are important species to humans directly and indirectly through their negative interactions with food and ornamental animal life, including fishes.

CONT

Dimetrazole [is] widely used in the treatment of bacterial disease and protozoom disease of pig, cattle, horse, fowl, economic animal and some ornamental animal.

CONT

[Parrots] became more widely available and popular. Keep in mind, however, that parrot availability was still limited to the highest echelons of society. Keeping an ornamental animal that did not useful work around the farm or home was entirely out of reach for the average citizen.

CONT

Hack/Show horse. Perfect to look at with good confirmation. An ornamental animal with style and elegance, lovely manners, intelligence and presence with graceful, extravagant action.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Animaux d'agrément
CONT

Le cygne est le plus grand et le plus majestueux de nos palmipèdes. Il représente l'animal d'ornement par excellence.

CONT

[...] comme le poisson, le reptile est aussi un animal d'ornement, dénué de tout sens affectif.

CONT

Le daim suscite peu d'intérêt chez le chasseur d'aujourd'hui, en France du moins. On le présente souvent comme un animal d'ornement ayant gardé des séquelles de semi-domestication.

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
  • Finance
DEF

Complex financial management, particularly as involving investment in financial markets by a company as a means of supplementing the earnings which it receives from its principal operations.

CONT

In the popular mind, zaitech has gradually expanded to mean nearly any slick or sophisticated financial dealing.

OBS

Japanese slang for financial engineering.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts
  • Finances

Spanish

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Record 5 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
OBS

Le Courrier de l'US, avril 1967, p. 24.

Spanish

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