脑与AI在世界模型计算上惊人相似,揭示大脑如何用统一电路实现多种功能。
The brain versus AI: World-model-based versatile circuit computation underlying diverse functions in the neocortex and cerebellum
- 提出世界模型框架,将脑回路计算拆解为结构、输入输出和学习算法三要素
- 发现大脑皮层与小脑通过预测未来事件和误差学习构建世界模型
- 理论整合内部模型与镜像神经元,适合神经科学与类脑智能研究者
尽管大脑皮层和小脑具有统一的电路结构,却能在感知、认知和运动等多个领域实现多样化功能。近年来,通用电路计算推动了人工智能的快速发展,为理解大脑机制提供了新视角。本文将电路计算分解为三个要素:电路结构、输入/输出及学习算法,系统比较脑与AI在各要素上的相似性。结果揭示脑与AI存在广泛相似性与趋同演化。基于此,我们提出新理论:皮层与小脑均通过过往信息预测未来世界,并从预测误差中学习,构建世界模型。该模型支持三大核心过程:(1) 预测——生成未来信息;(2) 理解——利用压缩抽象的感官信息解读外部世界;(3) 生成——复用未来信息生成机制以产生其他输出。这些通用过程解释了为何统一电路能实现多样化功能。本研究的方法、洞见与理论有望推动神经科学的重大突破。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
AI's significant recent advances using general-purpose circuit computations offer a potential window into how the neocortex and cerebellum of the brain are able to achieve a diverse range of functions across sensory, cognitive, and motor domains, despite their uniform circuit structures. However, comparing the brain and AI is challenging unless clear similarities exist, and past reviews have been limited to comparison of brain-inspired vision AI and the visual neocortex. Here, to enable comparisons across diverse functional domains, we subdivide circuit computation into three elements -- circuit structure, input/outputs, and the learning algorithm -- and evaluate the similarities for each element. With this novel approach, we identify wide-ranging similarities and convergent evolution in the brain and AI, providing new insights into key concepts in neuroscience. Furthermore, inspired by processing mechanisms of AI, we propose a new theory that integrates established neuroscience theories, particularly the theories of internal models and the mirror neuron system. Both the neocortex and cerebellum predict future world events from past information and learn from prediction errors, thereby acquiring models of the world. These models enable three core processes: (1) Prediction -- generating future information, (2) Understanding -- interpreting the external world via compressed and abstracted sensory information, and (3) Generation -- repurposing the future-information generation mechanism to produce other types of outputs. The universal application of these processes underlies the ability of the neocortex and cerebellum to accomplish diverse functions with uniform circuits. Our systematic approach, insights, and theory promise groundbreaking advances in understanding the brain.
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