提出以错误为中心的智能框架,突破传统观察学习局限
Towards Error Centric Intelligence I, Beyond Observational Learning
- 从错误演化角度重构智能定义,强调干预与反事实能力
- 提出因果力学机制,实现不可达错误向可处理错误转化
- 适合追求可解释、可纠错通用智能系统的研究者
我们认为,通用人工智能(AGI)的进步受限于理论而非数据或规模。基于波普尔和德utsch的批判理性主义,我们挑战柏拉图表征假说:观测等价的世界在干预下可能分叉,仅满足观测适配性无法保证干预能力。论文首先建立知识、学习、智能、反事实能力及AGI的定义基础,分析观测学习的局限性,进而将问题重述为三个核心疑问:显式与隐式错误如何随智能体行为演化;固定假设空间中哪些错误不可达;如何通过猜想与批判扩展假设空间。由此提出因果力学(Causal Mechanics),一种以机制为先的范式,将假设空间变化作为一等操作,概率结构仅在必要时使用而非预设。我们提出多项结构性原则,包括模块化干预的微分局部性与自主性原理、独立因果机制的规范不变形式,以及保持类比性的组合自主性原理,并配套可操作诊断工具。目标是构建可将不可达错误转化为可达错误并加以修正的智能系统架构。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We argue that progress toward AGI is theory limited rather than data or scale limited. Building on the critical rationalism of Popper and Deutsch, we challenge the Platonic Representation Hypothesis. Observationally equivalent worlds can diverge under interventions, so observational adequacy alone cannot guarantee interventional competence. We begin by laying foundations, definitions of knowledge, learning, intelligence, counterfactual competence and AGI, and then analyze the limits of observational learning that motivate an error centric shift. We recast the problem as three questions about how explicit and implicit errors evolve under an agent's actions, which errors are unreachable within a fixed hypothesis space, and how conjecture and criticism expand that space. From these questions we propose Causal Mechanics, a mechanisms first program in which hypothesis space change is a first class operation and probabilistic structure is used when useful rather than presumed. We advance structural principles that make error discovery and correction tractable, including a differential Locality and Autonomy Principle for modular interventions, a gauge invariant form of Independent Causal Mechanisms for separability, and the Compositional Autonomy Principle for analogy preservation, together with actionable diagnostics. The aim is a scaffold for systems that can convert unreachable errors into reachable ones and correct them.
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