AI缺乏组合推理能力,根源在于其心理学习理论的架构局限。
How Psychological Learning Paradigms Shaped and Constrained Artificial Intelligence
- 从行为主义到建构主义的心理学理论限制了AI的内部结构设计
- 现有补救方法如思维链提示只是治标不治本
- 提出ReSynth框架,分离推理、身份与记忆以实现系统性行为
当前人工智能系统在系统性组合推理方面存在困难:即重新组合已知组件形成新配置的能力。本文认为,这一失败源于架构缺陷,而非规模或训练数据问题,其根源在于人工智能范式所继承的心理学学习理论。论文分三阶段展开:首先,基于认知科学中的系统性争议及Aizawa的论证,指出连接主义与经典主义均无法使系统性成为架构的结构性结果;现代AI中流行的修正技术(如思维链提示、人类反馈对齐)仅作为辅助假设缓解症状,未解决架构对系统性的漠视。其次,追溯心理学学习理论到AI方法论的演化脉络,揭示行为主义、认知主义和建构主义各自遗留的结构性局限:排除内部结构、表征不透明、缺乏形式化构造算子。跨文化重审机械记忆揭示了一条尚未充分利用的路径。最后,提出ReSynth——一个三模块概念框架,主张将推理、身份与记忆进行原则性分离,从而构建使系统性行为成为设计内在结果而非事后补救的新型架构。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Current artificial intelligence systems struggle with systematic compositional reasoning: the capacity to recombine known components in novel configurations. This paper argues that the failure is architectural, not merely a matter of scale or training data, and that its origins lie in the psychological learning theories from which AI paradigms were derived. The argument proceeds in three stages. First, drawing on the systematicity debate in cognitive science and on the demonstration of Aizawa that neither connectionism nor classicism can make systematicity a structural consequence of the architecture, the paper establishes that the corrective techniques proliferating in modern AI, from chain-of-thought prompting to alignment through human feedback, function as auxiliary hypotheses that address symptoms without resolving the underlying architectural indifference to systematicity. Second, it traces the genealogy from psychological learning theory to AI methodology, showing that behaviourism, cognitivism, and constructivism each bequeathed a specific structural limitation to the AI paradigm it inspired: the exclusion of internal structure, the opacity of representation, and the absence of formal construction operators. A cross-cultural reappraisal of rote learning reveals a further underexploited pathway. Third, the paper introduces ReSynth, a trimodular conceptual framework that proposes the principled separation of reasoning, identity, and memory as a path toward architectures in which systematic behaviour is a structural consequence of design rather than a correction applied after the fact.
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