The Chinese Room is a thought experiment proposed by the American philosopher John Searle in 1980, in which an English-speaking person is placed in a nearly closed room, which can only communicate through a small window, and can only communicate in words, not words. He has a book on Chinese translation programs by his side. Others sent notes written in Chinese through a small window to the room, and the people in the room could translate the words and reply in Chinese through the translation book. Even if the person doesn't know Chinese at all, relying on this book can make people outside the house think that he is proficient in Chinese.

You see, books, can only speak English, don't these two conditions just meet the same conditions?

Searle used this thought experiment to counter the Turing test, and he did, and all artificial intelligence at the moment cannot break through the shackles of the Chinese house experiment. The computer reacts intelligently to the questioner outside the room, but does not really understand what is happening.

The Turing test is a thought test proposed by Alan Turing in 1950, which refers to the fact that the tester and the subject are far apart, and communicate with each other through some specific devices such as keyboards.

This elf can make readers mistakenly think that it is a person, a prankster, and if it is really an artificial intelligence, it must have passed the Turing test.

However, is passing the Turing Test artificial intelligence? Searle answered "no" with a Chinese house thought test.

The sparks generated by the collision of these two's thoughts after 30 years are enough to write a thick monograph, and Zhang Zi'an has only heard of it.

As for why it is a Chinese house instead of a Portuguese or German house, it is because Westerners generally believe that Chinese is as difficult as a book from heaven and cannot be learned by human beings at all......

Although the Chinese House Thought Experiment is not as famous as Schrödinger's cat, it is well known in the field of artificial intelligence and computers.

Zhang Zi'an's guess only stayed in his mind for a short while, and was denied by himself, because it was too far-fetched.

First of all, although the thought experiment of the Chinese house satisfies the two conditions of "book" and "English", the experiment itself has nothing to do with animals.

Second, Alpha Dog is just a joke name for the supercomputer AlphaGo by Chinese, because the pronunciation of "dog" and "Go" is basically the same, so it does not go away, in fact, AlphaGo is not a dog at all.

Finally, suppose that there is indeed a dog named Alpha who has become an elf, but artificial intelligence is in the ascendant, it is in full swing and is in a period of violent rise, a lot of money and technology are pouring into this field, everyone is optimistic about the development prospects of artificial intelligence in the 21st century, so the power of faith of this Alpha dog should be constantly condensed, how can it quickly dissipate?

Based on the above three points, Zhang Zi'an concluded that his guess was wrong, and this elf would not be an artificial intelligence elf.

Besides......

He pulled out his phone and entered the game interface.

If one of the sprites in the game is a real AI sprite, it must be the [Navigation Elf].

Alpha Dog is not worthy of being an elf, it is just a preliminary stage of artificial intelligence, and it is not enough.

"Navigation Elf, are you?" he whispered to his phone, unmuting it and turning it down to a minimum.

[Navigation Wizard]: At your service.

"Are you an artificial intelligence?" he asked again.

[Navigation Wizard]: I am your navigation wizard.

Such a watertight and cold answer made Zhang Zi'an think that the navigation wizard was a 24-hour manual customer service when he first downloaded this game, so the navigation wizard properly passed the Turing test.

Mr. Zhou was reading a book, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Zhang Zi'an talking with his mobile phone, and kindly reminded: "Young man, mobile phones are not allowed here." ”

Zhang Zi'an smiled slightly and turned off the phone screen, "I know." ”

His eyes fell back on the computer screen, and when he saw that the regulars had finished their rambling questions, he asked a second question in English.

[Dashuaibi]: What book?

There is no private chat feature in the chat room, and all chat conversations must be conducted in plain sight.

Soon, the elf replied in English as well, still interspersed with a large string of numbers, which was both laborious and eye-catching to read.

[3.1415926]: My book, I want my book.

[Dashuaibi]: Is this book important?

[3.1415926]: Without books, I would have disappeared from this world.

Seeing this, Zhang Zi'an finally felt at ease - I see, it seems that this book is the key to capturing this elf.

Most of the others don't think so, and they see this person as a complete alarmist, trying to get attention and maybe donate money or something later. They are all book-loving people, but even then they don't say anything like "I'd die without books".

Zhang Zi'an knows very well that the meanings of "will disappear" and "will die" are not the same and cannot be confused, but others do not know.

There are also those who think that the prankster may be suffering from mental illness, especially for girls like Coco, who have developed some sympathy as a result.

[Coco]: What's the title? We can help you find it.

[3.1415926]: No name.

[Coco]: There's no title? You always know what it's about, right?

For those of them who spend all day in the library, finding books is their forte, and they are confident that as long as the prankster says what the book is about, they can narrow it down to an acceptable level, and then brainstorm and sift through it further.

In this regard, Zhang Zian knew that he was inferior to them, so he watched quietly.

[3.1415926]: Life, the universe, and everything.

[Coco]: Ahaha! I've read this book, and I said it doesn't have a title? Isn't this the third book of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy written by Douglas Adams? Wait, I'll get you right away!

Not only her, but many regulars have seen this classic sci-fi, several people left their chairs, acted with Coco, passed quickly past Zhang Zi'an, walked to the stairs, some went to the second floor to find the Chinese version, and some went to the third floor to find the English version and other language versions. They are not usually so enthusiastic and action-oriented, but this time they just want to get a glimpse of the true face of the pranksters - you claim that you will die without a book, then we have found a book for you, you must come and pick up the book, right?

Zhang Zi'an sat in his chair and did not move, and continued to think.

He felt that things were not so simple, otherwise the difficulty of capturing this elf would not be extremely high.