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科学发现的计算拐点

A Computational Inflection for Scientific Discovery

The Allen Institute for AI(艾伦人工智能研究所);The Hebrew University of Jerusalem(希伯来大学);Northwestern University(西北大学);The University of Washington(华盛顿大学);Microsoft(微软)

Tom Hope, Doug Downey, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld, Eric Horvitz

AI总结:

本文提出科学发现正进入计算拐点:数字化科学信息与人工智能特别是大型神经语言模型的进步交汇,有望像历史上科学期刊出现一样,由计算机科学引发科学过程本身的革命。

摘要:

我们正站在科学发现轨迹中一个重大拐点的起点。随着社会持续快速数字化转型,人类集体的科学知识与科学话语也在同步演进。如今,我们以数字化形式阅读和撰写论文,科学的正式与非正式过程在很大程度上都以数字方式被记录——包括论文、预印本和书籍、代码和数据集、会议报告,以及社交网络和协作与交流平台中的互动。这一转变催生并积累了海量信息,其中大部分可供公众访问,为分析和利用这些信息的计算模型与系统带来了令人振奋的机遇。与此同时,数据处理能力的指数级增长推动了人工智能的显著进步,包括能够从非结构化文本中学习强大表示的大型神经语言模型。科学传播方式的剧烈变化——例如17世纪第一本科学期刊的出现——在历史上曾多次催化科学思想的革命。社会趋势与计算趋势的交汇表明,计算机科学有望在科学过程本身中引发一场革命。

英文摘要:

We stand at the foot of a significant inflection in the trajectory of scientific discovery. As society continues on its fast-paced digital transformation, so does humankind's collective scientific knowledge and discourse. We now read and write papers in digitized form, and a great deal of the formal and informal processes of science are captured digitally -- including papers, preprints and books, code and datasets, conference presentations, and interactions in social networks and collaboration and communication platforms. The transition has led to the creation and growth of a tremendous amount of information -- much of which is available for public access -- opening exciting opportunities for computational models and systems that analyze and harness it. In parallel, exponential growth in data processing power has fueled remarkable advances in artificial intelligence, including large neural language models capable of learning powerful representations from unstructured text. Dramatic changes in scientific communication -- such as the advent of the first scientific journal in the 17th century -- have historically catalyzed revolutions in scientific thought. The confluence of societal and computational trends suggests that computer science is poised to ignite a revolution in the scientific process itself.

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