A theory of understanding for artificial intelligence: composability, catalysts, and learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08463v1
• Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 00:17:18 GMT
• Title: A theory of understanding for artificial intelligence: composability, catalysts, and learning
• Authors: Zijian Zhang, Sara Aronowitz, Alán Aspuru-Guzik,
• Abstract summary: We show how the structure of a subject can be revealed by analyzing its components that act as catalysts. We argue that a subject's learning ability can be regarded as its ability to compose inputs into its inner catalysts. Our analysis indicates that models capable of generating outputs that can function as their own catalysts, such as language models, establish a foundation for potentially overcoming existing limitations in AI understanding.
• Score: 3.863838486311001
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Understanding is a crucial yet elusive concept in artificial intelligence (AI). This work proposes a framework for analyzing understanding based on the notion of composability. Given any subject (e.g., a person or an AI), we suggest characterizing its understanding of an object in terms of its ability to process (compose) relevant inputs into satisfactory outputs from the perspective of a verifier. This highly universal framework can readily apply to non-human subjects, such as AIs, non-human animals, and institutions. Further, we propose methods for analyzing the inputs that enhance output quality in compositions, which we call catalysts. We show how the structure of a subject can be revealed by analyzing its components that act as catalysts and argue that a subject's learning ability can be regarded as its ability to compose inputs into its inner catalysts. Finally we examine the importance of learning ability for AIs to attain general intelligence. Our analysis indicates that models capable of generating outputs that can function as their own catalysts, such as language models, establish a foundation for potentially overcoming existing limitations in AI understanding.

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