脑与AI都靠预测世界模型实现智能,揭示通用智能的共同计算基础。
The brain-AI convergence: Predictive and generative world models for general-purpose computation
- 脑与AI均通过预测误差学习构建内部世界模型
- 注意力机制的视觉处理与无注意力的运动控制共享同一计算范式
- 适合关注神经科学与AI交叉研究的读者
基于注意力机制的通用人工智能系统为理解新皮层和小脑——尽管其电路结构相对统一——如何产生多样功能并最终形成人类智能提供了可能窗口。本文从跨领域视角比较大脑与人工智能,超越传统视觉处理焦点,采用新兴的世界模型计算观点。我们发现,基于注意力的新皮层与非注意力的小脑共享相同的计算机制:均从过往输入中预测未来世界事件,并通过预测误差学习构建内部世界模型。这些预测性世界模型被重新用于不同任务——感知理解与运动生成——使大脑实现多领域能力与类人自适应智能。值得注意的是,注意力型人工智能也独立发展出相似的学习范式与基于世界模型的计算方式。我们得出结论:生物与人工系统中这些共享机制构成了实现多样化功能(包括高级智能)的核心计算基础,即便其电路结构相对统一。本理论洞见连接神经科学与人工智能,深化了对智能计算本质的理解。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent advances in general-purpose AI systems with attention-based transformers offer a potential window into how the neocortex and cerebellum, despite their relatively uniform circuit architectures, give rise to diverse functions and, ultimately, to human intelligence. This Perspective provides a cross-domain comparison between the brain and AI that goes beyond the traditional focus on visual processing, adopting the emerging perspecive of world-model-based computation. Here, we identify shared computational mechanisms in the attention-based neocortex and the non-attentional cerebellum: both predict future world events from past inputs and construct internal world models through prediction-error learning. These predictive world models are repurposed for seemingly distinct functions -- understanding in sensory processing and generation in motor processing -- enabling the brain to achieve multi-domain capabilities and human-like adaptive intelligence. Notably, attention-based AI has independently converged on a similar learning paradigm and world-model-based computation. We conclude that these shared mechanisms in both biological and artificial systems constitute a core computational foundation for realizing diverse functions including high-level intelligence, despite their relatively uniform circuit structures. Our theoretical insights bridge neuroscience and AI, advancing our understanding of the computational essence of intelligence.
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