Machine Translation: Early Criticisms Revisited

Stefania Centrone, Cosimo Perini Brogi, Stefan Reifberger

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Abstract

Hubert Dreyfus questioned the foundational ideas of early artificial intelligence research. Challenging the prevailing orthodoxy, he posited that the failure to manifest advancements in areas like language translation and problem-solving stems from a foundational misalignment with the intricacies of human "information processing". This paper restates Dreyfus' challenge. Based on case studies it argues that contemporary neural network systems have taken up the challenge by implicitly addressing three distinct philosophical problems, posed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, George Pólya, and Edmund Husserl.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHCAI-ep 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Human Centered Artificial Intelligence - Education and Practice
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages51-55
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9798400711596
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Dec 2024
Event2nd Conference on Human Centered Artificial Intelligence - Education and Practice, HCAI-ep 2024 - Naples, Italy
Duration: 1 Dec 20242 Dec 2024

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference2nd Conference on Human Centered Artificial Intelligence - Education and Practice, HCAI-ep 2024
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityNaples
Period1/12/242/12/24

Keywords

  • Heuristics.
  • Limits of artificial intelligence
  • LLMs
  • Machine translation
  • Meaning-as-use
  • Philosophical foundations
  • Syntax/semantics interface

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