Abstract In this essay, I investigate the effect of OpenAI's GPT-3 on the modern concept of the human (as alone capable of reason and language) and of machines (as devoid of reason and language). I show how GPT-3 and other transformer-based language models give rise to a new, structuralist concept of language, implicit in which is a new understanding of human and machine that unfolds far beyond the reach of the categories we have inherited from the past. I try to make compelling the argument that AI companies like OpenAI, Google, Facebook, or Microsoft effectively are philosophical laboratories (insofar as they disrupt the old concepts/ontologies we live by) and I ask what it would mean to build AI products from the perspective of the philosophical disruptions they provoke: can we liberate AI from the concept of the human we inherited from the past?

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非人类语言：作为哲学实验室的 GPT-3

摘要 在这篇文章中，我研究了 OpenAI 的 GPT-3 对现代概念的人类（仅具有理性和语言能力）和机器（缺乏理性和语言）的影响。我展示了 GPT-3 和其他基于转换器的语言模型如何产生一种新的、结构主义的语言概念，其中隐含着对人类和机器的新理解，这种理解远远超出了我们从过去继承的类别的范围。 . 我试图提出令人信服的论点，即 OpenAI、谷歌、Facebook 或微软等人工智能公司实际上是哲学实验室（只要它们破坏了我们赖以生存的旧概念/本体），我问从从它们引发的哲学颠覆的角度来看：