François Chollet@fchollet · XAI 摘要
推文以原子弹研发为例，阐述极端泛化的本质：科学仅用47年、约9个关键实验便实现从放射性观察到核武器的突破。这种进步不依赖大数据，而源于符号压缩——将少量刻意收集的数据点提炼为单页纸可承载的因果符号规则。核心观点在于，通过逆向推导数据背后的因果逻辑，人类能够将极简信息转化为重塑现实的完整方案，展现符号推理在突破认知边界中的决定性作用。
Science went from the initial observation of radioactivity to a working atom bomb over 47 years via only about 9 distinct key experiments -- extremely few data points -- and symbolic models concise enough they would fit on a single page.
This is what extreme generalization looks like， and it powered entirely by symbolic compression. Turn a handful of data points （deliberately collected） into a tractable plan to completely reshape reality， by reverse-engineering the causal symbolic rules behind the data.