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Are We Making AI Too Human?, with James Evans

2025/6/12
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James Evans: 我认为机器学习和基于Transformer的模型对科学的进步既有积极影响也有消极影响。目前的人工智能发展倾向于模仿人类的思维方式，这可能会限制科学探索的范围。因此，我们需要开发与人类思维方式完全不同的新型智能，我称之为“认知外星人”。这些“外星思维”能够扩展或跨越我们无法体验的分析层面，从而以新颖的方式补充人类的发现。为了实现这一目标，我们需要将人工智能视为一种感觉设备，而不仅仅是认知设备，让它能够生成新的数据，搜索新的空间，从而构建解释。此外，我们还需要积极利用人工智能来学习寻找什么，构建新的望远镜、显微镜和感觉设备，从而推动科学的进步。

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Prof. James Evans, a University of Chicago sociologist and data scientist, believes we’re training AI to think too much like humans—and it’s holding science back.

In this episode, Evans shares how our current models risk narrowing scientific exploration rather than expanding it, and explains why he’s pushing for AIs that think differently from us—what he calls “cognitive aliens.” Could these “alien minds” help us unlock hidden breakthroughs? And what would it take to build them?