Reflections on "Can AI Understand Our Universe?"

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17507v1
• Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 09:24:47 GMT
• Title: Reflections on "Can AI Understand Our Universe?"
• Authors: Yu Wang,
• Abstract summary: It focuses on two concepts of understanding: intuition and causality, and highlights three AI technologies: Transformers, chain-of-thought reasoning, and multimodal processing.<n>We anticipate that in principle AI could form understanding, with these technologies representing promising advancements.
• Score: 3.19428095493284
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This article briefly discusses the philosophical and technical aspects of AI. It focuses on two concepts of understanding: intuition and causality, and highlights three AI technologies: Transformers, chain-of-thought reasoning, and multimodal processing. We anticipate that in principle AI could form understanding, with these technologies representing promising advancements.

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