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Yahoo
14 hours ago
- Science
- Yahoo
Chinese scientists claim AI is capable of spontaneous human-like understanding
Chinese researchers claim to have found evidence that large language models (LLMs) can comprehend and process natural objects like human beings. This, they suggest, is done spontaneously even without being explicitly trained to do so. According to the researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, some AIs (like ChatGPT or Gemini) can mirror a key part of human cognition, which is sorting information. Their study, published in Nature Machine Intelligence, investigated whether LLM models can develop cognitive processes similar to those of human object representation. Or, in other words, to find out if LLMs can recognize and categorize things based on function, emotion, environment, etc. To discover if this is the case, the researchers gave AIs 'odd-one-out' tasks using either text (for ChatGPT-3.5) or images (for Gemini Pro Vision). To this end, they collected 4.7 million responses across 1,854 natural objects (like dogs, chairs, apples, and cars). They found that of the models created, sixty-six conceptual dimensions were created to organize objects, just the way humans would. These dimensions extended beyond basic categories (such as 'food') to encompass complex attributes, including texture, emotional relevance, and suitability for children. The scientists also found that multimodal models (combining text and image) aligned even more closely with human thinking, as AIs process both visual and semantic features simultaneously. Furthermore, the team discovered that brain scan data (neuroimaging) revealed an overlap between how AI and the human brain respond to objects. The findings are interesting and provide, it appears, evidence that AI systems might be capable of genuinely 'understanding' in a human-like way, rather than just mimicking responses. It also suggests that future AIs could have more intuitive, human-compatible reasoning, which is essential for robotics, education, and human-AI collaboration. However, it is also important to note that LLMs don't understand objects the way humans do emotionally or experientially. AIs work by recognizing patterns in language or images that often correspond closely to human concepts. While that may appear to be 'understanding' on the surface, it's not based on lived experience or grounded sensory-motor interaction. Also, some parts of AI representations may correlate with brain activity, but this doesn't mean they can 'think' like humans or share the same architecture. If anything, they can be thought of as more of a sophisticated facsimile of human pattern recognition rather than a thinking machine. LLMs are more like a mirror made from millions of books and pictures, reflecting those models at the user based on learned patterns. The study's findings suggest that LLMs and humans might be converging on similar functional patterns, such as organizing the world into categories. This challenges the view that AIs can only 'appear' smart by repeating patterns in data. But, if, as the study argues, LLMS are starting to build conceptual models of the world independently, it would mean that we could be edging closer to artificial general intelligence (AGI)—a system that can think and reason across many tasks like a human. You can access the study in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.
Malay Mail
15-05-2025
- Automotive
- Malay Mail
Automakers focus on R&D and design investment as China's electric vehicle exports increase
GUANGZHOU, CHINA - Media OutReach Newswire - 15 May 2025 - The market size of new energy vehicles in China is expanding, and automakers are constantly carrying out innovative the first four months of 2025, China's automobile production and sales both surpassed 10 million units for the first time, according to data released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM).A report from the Passenger Car Market Joint Branch of the China Automobile Dealers Association pointed out that in April, China's export volume of new energy passenger vehicles reached 189,000 units, increasing by 44.2 percent year-on-year and 31.6 percent month-on-month, accounting for 44.6 percent of the total passenger vehicle exports, up by 14 percentage points compared with the same period last this trend, Chinese automakers, such as GAC Group, have increased their investment in research and development, especially by constantly innovating in the field of design to meet the needs of young Ping-chun, an exterior designer of GAC, introduced that in the current electric vehicle industry chain, automotive designers play the role of "magicians," aiming to turn an attractive pattern into a product. Besides retaining creativity, it also needs to comply with the norms of the automotive Ping-chun introduced that the vehicle appearance he made at that time was the first new energy vehicle with gull-wing doors among the self-owned brands of Chinese automakers. Due to its fashionable body lines, it received a lot of Ping-chun was born in Taiwan and later went to work in Guangdong Province. He said that while living on the Chinese mainland, he found that the most common vehicles he saw on the roads were new energy vehicles. In terms of autonomous driving, some Chinese automakers represented by GAC have already taken the leading position internationally, said #ChinaNewsService The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
