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Searle goes into the room with the copy of the program instructions. He gets passed a note written in Chinese, cracks his knuckles, and then opens the manual.
by subroutine 5y ago
Searle goes into the room with the copy of the program instructions. He gets passed a note written in Chinese, cracks his knuckles, and then opens the manual.
He reads, "Step-1: prior to translating the note, we are going to train your neural networks on a Chinese corpus consisting of 410 billion tokens from Common Crawl, 19 billion tokens from WebText, 67 billion tokens from Books, and 3 billion tokens from Wikipedia. Training in 5, 4, 3..."
He shouts, "wait but if you do that wo shuō zhōngwén."
- ww_wpg 5y agoThe search result I'm finding for that phrase is "Wǒ bù huì shuō zhōngwén. I kept saying it over and over again, the phrase I had memorized to explain my inability to speak their language". So I guess it means "I don't speak Mandarin"?
- elikoga 5y agoThe "Wǒ bù huì[...]" part means "I negate/not can[...]" It means precisely the opposite.