arXiv:2411.06812cs.AIcs.CY2024-11被引 15

提出生成式中介认知,揭示人与AI共创的新型思维模式。

Generative midtended cognition and Artificial Intelligence. Thinging with thinging things

  • 将生成式AI视为认知伙伴,构建人机协同创造新范式。
  • 定义宽度与深度双维度,刻画人机交互的创造性层次。
  • 适合关注人机协作、认知科学与AI伦理的研究者阅读。

本文提出“生成式中介认知”概念,探讨生成式AI如何融入人类认知过程。其中“生成”体现AI迭代生成结构化输出的能力,“中介”则指人与AI混合的创造性互动。该过程介于传统内源性创作与外部扩展认知之间,超越经典扩展认知理论。基于多模态变压器架构(如ChatGPT)的生成技术,使人类认知能动性发生质变。研究指出,人机耦合的创造性活动更接近社会认知而非传统扩展认知,需独立界定。文中提出双维框架:宽度(从单字到历史数据的上下文敏感度)和深度(迭代循环的粒度),定位在对话式认知与微观神经过程之间。最后讨论广泛采用生成式AI带来的风险与收益,包括真实性挑战、生成能力不平等及创造力增强或退化问题。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This paper introduces the concept of ``generative midtended cognition'', exploring the integration of generative AI with human cognition. The term "generative" reflects AI's ability to iteratively produce structured outputs, while "midtended" captures the potential hybrid (human-AI) nature of the process. It stands between traditional conceptions of intended creation, understood directed from within, and extended processes that bring exo-biological processes into the creative process. We examine current generative technologies (based on multimodal transformer architectures typical of large language models like ChatGPT), to explain how they can transform human cognitive agency beyond what standard theories of extended cognition can capture. We suggest that the type of cognitive activity typical of the coupling between a human and generative technologies is closer (but not equivalent) to social cognition than to classical extended cognitive paradigms. Yet, it deserves a specific treatment. We provide an explicit definition of generative midtended cognition in which we treat interventions by AI systems as constitutive of the agent's intentional creative processes. Furthermore, we distinguish two dimensions of generative hybrid creativity: 1. Width: captures the sensitivity of the context of the generative process (from the single letter to the whole historical and surrounding data), 2. Depth: captures the granularity of iteration loops involved in the process. Generative midtended cognition stands in the middle depth between conversational forms of cognition in which complete utterances or creative units are exchanged, and micro-cognitive (e.g. neural) subpersonal processes. Finally, the paper discusses the potential risks and benefits of widespread generative AI adoption, including the challenges of authenticity, generative power asymmetry, and creative boost or atrophy.

认知科学人机协同生成式AIAI伦理

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