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ARGUMENT CHAMBRE CHINOISE [1 record]

Record 1 2018-03-02

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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