概念工程:理解心灵与智能的可能方式
作者简介:刘闯,复旦大学哲学学院教授(上海 200433);刘思嘉,复旦大学哲学学院博士研究生(上海 200433)。
摘要: 哲学领域近期正在发生一项重要转变,即哲学方法从概念分析到概念工程的转向。这是一个从“扶手椅哲学”到结合交叉经验科学来做哲学的转变。在人工智能飞速发展的今天,概念工程变得尤为重要。诸多传统的概念,如智能、知识、意识、自主性、价值等,在人机频繁交互的环境下,内涵和外延均变得难以确定。概念工程的方法即为通过厘清概念在不同实际运用领域中的合理内涵与实用外延,以“家族相似性”为整合原则,对需要拓展的概念进行“打磨加工”,从而得到思考、推理、判断、交流和传播的新表征工具的方法。在人工智能领域,概念工程将助力厘清自然智能与人工智能的本质区别,合理运用相关概念来思考和评判人机交互中出现的新现象新问题,从而帮助认清与发挥自然智能与人工智能各自的特长。比如,保存和发展自然智能专长的默会知识和技能,大力推进人工智能大数据技术,日常化高端科技研究工作,为应对AI伦理挑战、探索智能多元形态提供哲学支撑。
Conceptual Engineering: A Way of Understanding Mind and Intelligence in the Future
Abstract: This paper discusses a significant recent shift in the field of philosophy-the transition from conceptual analysis to conceptual engineering. This represents a move from "armchair philosophy" to an approach that incorporates empirical sciences The paper argues that, in the era of artificial intelligence, conceptual engineering has become particularly crucial. Many traditional concepts, such as intelligence, knowledge, consciousness, autonomy, and value, have become ambiguous in both intension and extension. The method of conceptual engineering involves clarifying the reasonable connotations and practical extensions of concepts across various applied domains, using "family resemblance" as an integrative principle to "refine and process" concepts in need of expansion. This results in new representational tools for thinking, reasoning, judging, communicating, and disseminating ideas. In the field of artificial intelligence, conceptual engineering will help clarify the essential distinctions between natural and artificial intelligence, appropriately apply relevant concepts to reflect on and evaluate new phenomena and issues arising from human-machine interaction, and thereby aid in recognizing and leveraging the respective strengths of natural and artificial intelligence.