You get excited when you're playing chess at the prospect of capturing my queen and crushing me.

在玩象棋的时候,你因为希望,吃掉我的皇后下赢我而感到兴奋

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In the current world champion of chess, I think Vladimir Kramnik, was defeated in December by a chess-playing program.

当前的国际象棋世界冠军,弗拉基米尔?克拉姆尼克,就在今年12月被一个国际象棋程序击败

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Tipping my hand, it seems pretty clear that that seems like the right thing to say about these chess-playing programs.

我先亮出我自己的观点,显而易见,这个问题正好能够,对国际象棋程序做出解释

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And I'm inclined to think, "Yes." In fact, I already suggested as much when I talked about the chess-playing computers.

我倾向于认为,有,实际上,当我在谈会下象棋计算机时,我已经暗示过很多次了

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There was a period of time in which, although there were decent, chess-playing programs couldn't beat the best chess-playing humans.

尽管曾一度出现过,强劲的象棋程序,无法战胜顶级人类棋手的情形

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It looks as though the natural thing to say about the chess-playing computer is, it does have beliefs. It does have desires.

这看起来好像是一件自然的事情,说象棋程序,有自己的信念 有欲望

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Now, I think it is plausible to suggest that unlike the case of chess-playing computers, we don't yet have machines that feel things.

现在,我想我们有理由认为,与象棋计算机的例子不同,我们现在还没有能感觉事物的机器

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So how do chess-playing programs, and particularly the best chess-playing programs, how do they work? Well, they play chess the same way you do.

那么,下棋程序,特别是最好的下棋程序,是如何工作的呢,它们的下棋方式同你们如出一辙

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The chess-playing computer programs think of moves, think of strategies no one's thought of before.

国际象棋程序会思考如何下子,会想出没有人曾想到的策略

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Remember, it's not as though the people who designed the chess-playing programs can beat it.

记住,那些设计象棋程序的人,貌似也下不过他们的象棋程序

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You might think that what a computer, what a chess-playing computer does is just this: it calculates every possible branch, every possible game from here on out.

你可能认为,一台电脑,或一台下棋电脑所做的工作就是这样,计算出所有可能的下法,以及与之对应的各种可能的棋局

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This is just a matter of beliefs, goals, responses, planning, the sort of thing that we already saw the chess-playing computer can do, that behavioral side of emotion.

信念,目标,对策,规划,诸如此类,象棋计算机已经能够做到,这些情感的行为方面

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And it's worth pointing out that-- a point that I didn't make last time-- it's worth pointing out that, what the computers, at least the best chess-playing computers don't do.

需要指出的,上次课我并没有提到这一点,需要指出的是,电脑,至少最棒的国际象棋电脑,并没有做什么

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The chess-playing program makes moves these guys haven't thought of.

象棋程序的走法,是这些程序员也未曾想到过的

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So suppose, for example, we've got a chess-playing computer.

所以假如说我们有一个会下国际象棋的电脑

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If what we mean is the mental, but that the aspect, the behavioral aspect of the mental, where even a chess-playing computer probably has it, then that's not a very compelling argument.

如果我们说的是精神的某个方面,即精神的表现面,是一个甚至连象棋程序都可能拥有的方面,那这就不是一个令人信服的论点

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After all, chess-playing computers, it seems, can reason.

毕竟,会下国际象棋的电脑似乎是会推理的

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That is not the way chess-playing programs work.

但国际象棋的程序并不是这样工作的

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That's how chess-playing programs work as well.

下棋程序也是这样工作的

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