?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Summary+in+English+of+PRINCIPES+DES+SYSTEMES+INTELLIGENTS&rft.creator=Jorion%2C+Paul&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Language&rft.description=This+book%2C+published+in+a+series+called+%C2%93Cognitive+Science%C2%94%2C+aims+--+as+suggested+in+the+title+--+at+defining+general+properties+of+%C2%AB+intelligent+systems+%C2%BB.+The+question+of+the+intelligence+of+a+computer+system+running+a+piece+of+software+can+be+considerably+simplified+if+no+consideration+is+given+to+the+concept+of+a+%C2%AB+subject+%C2%BB+displaying+intelligent+behavior.+In+everyday+life+we+content+ourselves+with+simply+assuming+that+our+human+interlocutors+are+inhabited+by+a+%C2%AB+subject+%C2%BB%3A+we+never+demand+any+proof+of+the+actual+existence+of+such+a+subject.+Searle%C2%92s+%C2%AB+Chinese+room+%C2%BB+thought+experiment+shows+a+human+subject+being+fluent+in+Chinese+but+being+unaware+of+such+capacity+for+being+solely+aware+of+manipulating+skillfully+sets+of+symbols.+For+all+practical+purpose+all+persons+dealing+with+the+prisoner+of+the+Chinese+room+would+be+justified+to+regard+themselves+as+dealing+with+a+fluent+speaker+of+Chinese.+In+the+circumstance+the+%C2%AB+subjective+%C2%BB+feeling+of+the+subject+that+he+understands+or+not+Chinese+is+irrelevant+to+his+actual+fluency.+The+same+would+apply+to+a+computer+system%3A+as+long+as+the+sentences+it+produces+are+indistinguishable+from+those+that+a+human+being+would+generate%2C+it+would+justifiably+be+regarded+as+intelligent.+The+question+reduces+then+to+that+of+designing+a+function+and+data+structure+that+generates+algorithmically+specific+sentences+by+traveling+through+the+word-space+of+a+particular+language%C2%92s+lexicon.+The+first+constraint+to+be+observed+is+that+of+grammatical+acceptability+of+the+clauses+generated.+The+second+is+that+of+the+plausibility+of+these+sentences+within+a+general+context+of+human+cultures+(common+sense+view).+The+third+constraint+is+that+of+topicality.+The+fourth+constraint+is+that+of+non-contradiction+between+consecutive+clauses.+Little+by+little+a+picture+emerges+of+a+network+of+memory+traces+capable+of+growing+in+an+organized+manner+associated+with+an+affect+dynamics+capable+of+generating+from+these+memory+traces%2C+clauses+displaying+emergent+logical+features.&rft.publisher=Masson%2C+Paris&rft.contributor=Jorion%2C+Paul&rft.date=1990&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F483%2F1%2FPRINCIPE.html&rft.identifier=++Jorion%2C+Paul++(1990)+Summary+in+English+of+PRINCIPES+DES+SYSTEMES+INTELLIGENTS.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F483%2F