Reflections on "Can AI Understand Our Universe?"

Abstract

This article briefly discusses the philosophical and technical aspects of AI. It focuses on two concepts of understanding: intuition and causality, and highlights three AI technologies: Transformers, chain-of-thought reasoning, and multimodal processing. We anticipate that in principle AI could form understanding, with these technologies representing promising advancements.

Invited talk at the 17th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, associated with arXiv:2404.10019, to be published in the International Journal of Modern Physics D

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