학술논문

AI for Technoscientific Discovery: A Human-Inspired Architecture
Document Type
article
Source
Journal of Creativity, Vol 34, Iss 2, Pp 100077- (2024)
Subject
Artificial intelligence
creativity
extended neurosymbolic knowledge
technoscientific method
Consciousness. Cognition
BF309-499
Language
English
ISSN
2713-3745
Abstract
We present a high-level architecture for how artificial intelligences might advance and accumulate scientific and technological knowledge, inspired by emerging perspectives on how human intelligences advance and accumulate such knowledge. Agents advance knowledge by exercising a technoscientific method—an interacting combination of scientific and engineering methods. The technoscientific method maximizes a quantity we call “useful learning” via more-creative implausible utility (including the “aha!” moments of discovery), as well as via less-creative plausible utility. Society accumulates the knowledge advanced by agents so that other agents can incorporate and build on to make further advances. The proposed architecture is challenging but potentially complete: its execution might in principle enable artificial intelligences to advance and accumulate an equivalent of the full range of human scientific and technological knowledge.