I Speak,Therefor I Am:On the Language Intelligence of Humans and Computers
This paper first examines the history of ancient philosophy,modem philosophy and contemporary philosophy to show that the attention of the human mind to the world starts from the cognitive object(ancient philosophy),turns to the cognitive subject(modem philosophy),and then turns to the intermediate link,that is,the language(modem and contemporary philosophy).Language intelligence is the intelligence produced on the basis of symbolic language,including human language intelligence and computer language intelligence,both of which are obviously based on language.Therefore,the language-AI ChatGPT has stronger intelligence and greater cognitive ability than the thinking-AI AlphaGo of the past,and it will also behave more like a human.The linguistic revolution of the 20th century produced a series of important events that formed a continuum of linguistic cognition.From GT,the signature achievement of Chomsky's linguistic revolution,to ChatGPT,how far has AI really gone?Based on the five-level theory of human cognition and taking ChatGPT as a sample,this paper discusses some important issues related to linguistic intelligence and draws our conclusions.