Tech data, new philosophical thinking

Large data, usually used to describe the large number of structured and http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13739.html "> unstructured" data created by people, characterized by 4 "V", that is, large volumes of data; such as blog, video, pictures, geographical information and so on, processing speed, contains great value potential. This change is not just scientific, but the "Big Data Wave" has also led to changes in thinking patterns and patterns of development--which has led philosophers to recognize the need to understand their mathematical and philosophical underpinnings.

The history of the understanding of data is the history of mankind

The way of human existence and development can be summed up as: access to information, processing of information, and this is intelligence. The progress of intelligence, in the final analysis, is the progress of information technology.

Human history has experienced three information revolution: the creation of language-the creation of words-the creation of telecommunications communications.

Language enables people to understand the world and establish relationships, but its limitations and shortcomings cannot break through the boundaries of individual space-time. The appearance of the word realizes the long distance of human thought and the transmission of generation, so the human union expands; Although it breaks through the space limit, it takes a long time. The creation of telecommunication communication has broken through the limitation of space and laid a foundation for computer and internet creation.

The creation of electronic computers and the Internet is a great and unprecedented comprehensive, characterized by: All information is attributed to the form of data expression ――0 and 1. As long as there are 0 and 1, plus a logical relationship, you can make up the whole world. And the world is the composition of this, has appeared to read Brain machine, Brain wave command of the computer, intelligent robot and the human brain inserted chips and so on, all show that the brain's cognitive style and the world of things isomorphic.

The advent of large data has led us to realize that human understanding and practice is a history of data search, processing, excavation and innovation. The large data method reveals that causality is conventional, and that the ultimate relationship should be found from the relevance and isomorphism of things. The data reflects the relation information of two sequences with isomorphic relation, and the motion trajectory of an object is expressed by the carrier code of another sequence. The person who knows is not the absolute image of the object itself, but the data which is abstracted from the object and the trajectory of the object. From this point of view, isomorphism relationship is the mathematical Philosophy foundation of large data.

Artificial intelligence may overtake human beings

Is it reliable to know the world based on data relationships between objects? In the past, human beings in the reflection of their ability to understand, have repeatedly put forward the question. Every time a man declares himself to be the universal judgment of Absolute truth, such as "All swans are white", is always overthrown by a single incident of a small "black swan". The existence of the "black Swan" implies unpredictable and important rare events that are unexpected and change everything. Therefore, scientific knowledge cannot be regarded as the ultimate reflection of the objective world, it is only a model of the cognition object that people construct with rationality.

Large data is more like a continuous argument and data flow. This makes people realize that knowledge is never completely determined and never ends.

The advent of large data may make AI more likely to overtake humans. In the Turing Test, did the robot who passed the test really have a mind of its own? Opponents say "intelligence and thought are two different things". But if you put a child in the Turing test, the question becomes: For a newborn child, when does intelligence start? Experiments show that the child's self-awareness begins with a large number of conditioned stimuli (Pavlov's conditioned reflex), just countless repetitions of the stimulus to become a firm belief base that forms the belief that this is self-evident axiom. In fact, the big data already shows that the isomorphic relationship between the model of thinking and the model of the world has been truly grasped.

Based on the isomorphic relationship of large data, we will redefine knowledge: human knowledge is also a limited. From this definition, AI can transcend human beings--as long as artificial intelligence is dynamic and can be developed, it can learn and surpass human beings. Self-learning robot can exceed the key "singularity", as long as the probability of increase by the confirmed, give artificial intelligence a belief or axiom, artificial intelligence technology will be able to transcend its creator-human itself.

will bring the development model revolution

Knowledge is increasing. Moore's law reveals the speed at which big data is growing. This is a revolution, a new scientific and technological revolution and industrial revolution, which changes our thinking, decision-making way and way of development, and it is a revolution that affects the development of the world and human civilization.

Compared with the previous technological revolution and the industrial Revolution, the impact of large data has three aspects:

One is to unlimited growth through limited growth. The traditional way of economic and social development is limited, because the material wealth and the assets are limited, will be exhausted. For example, coal is now used for 160 years only, and oil is used for only 40 years. But the growth of large data is endless, incremental, unlimited.

The second is to increase the efficiency of the breakthrough diminishing benefits. The traditional way of social development is high cost, low benefit and diminishing benefit. But the development way of the big data age is low cost, high efficiency, fast degree, the benefit is increment.

The third is the development of harmony and mutual benefit which has broken through the contradictory. The traditional development is zero-sum game-like, Matthew Effect: You have I do not, you more I will be less, the rich are richer the poorer the poorer. In a way, people quarrel with each other, and the world is not peaceful. Now, the development of the big data age is harmonious, cooperation wins-win. Because data wealth and assets can be replicated, incremental, shared. Of course, the key also depends on the quality of people, so to develop science and education, improve people's quality. (Author Li Dewei is deputy dean of the State Administration College of SAIC)

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