From the Turing Test to ChatGPT:The Possibility of AI Serving as a Cognitive Subject
The evolution from the Turing Test to ChatGPT has demonstrated the continuous augmentation and upgrade of AI's cognitive abilities and paradigms,which also highlights the epistemological problems regarding the relationship between human and machine or between human and technology.The Turing Test has provided a criterion of possibility that AI can become a cognitive subject,which is questioned by many scholars including Searle and Dreyfus.As for the the core issue of the debate in itself,it can be summarized as the dialectical relationship between AI and the nature of human cognition.As for the epistemological dimension within the realm of the argument,the evolution of AI inevitably exerts an influence on the theoretical establishment of epistemology.Conversely,epistemology can offer a theoretical guidance for the development of AI.As for the evolution of AI,this theoretical argument plays a role in clarifying the pertinent issues and indicates the course for its further development.