AI不仅需可解释,更应具备系统性思维能力。
Explainability Through Systematicity: The Hard Systematicity Challenge for Artificial Intelligence
- 提出四重系统性概念,区分AI思维的合理性标准
- 指出传统连接主义与系统性并非对立,关键在认知目标
- 强调系统性要求应依应用场景动态调整,避免过度苛求
本文认为,可解释性只是对人工智能(AI)更高理想的一个方面。核心问题在于:AI在多大程度上表现出系统性——不仅是对思想成分重组的敏感性,更是追求一种一致、连贯、全面且简约原则化的思想体系。这一更丰富的系统性概念长期被连接主义面临的‘系统性挑战’所遮蔽,该挑战认为网络架构从根本上无法实现福多等人提出的‘思想的系统性’。本文提出一个概念框架,区分‘思想系统性’的四种含义,并以此化解系统性与连接主义之间的表面对立。研究表明,历史上塑造我们对理性、权威和科学思维期待的系统性标准,比福多式的定义更为严格。因此,是否要求AI达到这一系统性理想,取决于系统化背后的动因能否适用于AI。本文识别出五种系统化动因并应用于AI,由此揭示出‘硬系统性挑战’。但系统化需求本身必须受制于其背后动因,从而形成动态理解:何时、在何种程度上需要系统化,由具体目的决定。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper argues that explainability is only one facet of a broader ideal that shapes our expectations towards artificial intelligence (AI). Fundamentally, the issue is to what extent AI exhibits systematicity--not merely in being sensitive to how thoughts are composed of recombinable constituents, but in striving towards an integrated body of thought that is consistent, coherent, comprehensive, and parsimoniously principled. This richer conception of systematicity has been obscured by the long shadow of the "systematicity challenge" to connectionism, according to which network architectures are fundamentally at odds with what Fodor and colleagues termed "the systematicity of thought." I offer a conceptual framework for thinking about "the systematicity of thought" that distinguishes four senses of the phrase. I use these distinctions to defuse the perceived tension between systematicity and connectionism and show that the conception of systematicity that historically shaped our sense of what makes thought rational, authoritative, and scientific is more demanding than the Fodorian notion. To determine whether we have reason to hold AI models to this ideal of systematicity, I then argue, we must look to the rationales for systematization and explore to what extent they transfer to AI models. I identify five such rationales and apply them to AI. This brings into view the "hard systematicity challenge." However, the demand for systematization itself needs to be regulated by the rationales for systematization. This yields a dynamic understanding of the need to systematize thought, which tells us how systematic we need AI models to be and when.
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