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Dwarkesh Podcast:陶哲轩谈AI时代的科学发现与数学研究

来源: Substack | 嘉宾:陶哲轩(Terence Tao) | 主持人:Dwarkesh Patel 分类: 访谈 原文发表: Mar 20, 2026 纪要生成: 2026-04-20


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陶哲轩(Terence Tao)是当今世界最具影响力的数学家之一,菲尔兹奖得主,在数论、组合数学、调和分析等多个领域有突破性贡献。本集播客中,他从开普勒发现行星运动定律的历史出发,探讨AI对科学研究尤其是数学研究的影响,涉及AI成果筛选、人机协作模式、未来科研范式变革等核心议题,为AI时代的科研从业者提供了方向性参考。


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00:00:00 开普勒是高温大模型

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"We celebrate Kepler, but we should also celebrate Brahe for his assiduous data collection, which was ten times more precise than any previous observation. That extra decimal point of accuracy was essential for Kepler to get his results."


00:11:44 如何从海量AI废料中识别新的统一概念?

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"Right now we’re going through a cognitive version of the Copernican revolution, where we used to think that human intelligence is the center of the universe, and now we’re seeing that there are very different types of intelligence out there with very different strengths and weaknesses. Our assessment of which tasks require intelligence, which ones don’t, has to be reordered quite a bit."


00:26:10 演绎过剩

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"Astronomers are world-class in extracting all kinds of conclusions from little traces of data, almost like Sherlock."


00:30:31 已报道AI发现的选择偏差

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"If you only focus on the success stories, the ones that get broadcast on social media, it looks amazing. All these problems that haven’t been solved for decades, now they’re falling. But whenever we do a systematic study, on any given problem an AI tool has a success rate of maybe 1% or 2%."


00:46:43 AI让论文更丰富更宽泛,但没有更有深度

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"They’ve really sped up lots of secondary tasks. They haven’t yet sped up the core thing that I do, but it’s allowed me to add more things to my papers. By the same token, if I were to write a paper I wrote in 2020 again—and not add all these extra features, but just have something of the same level of functionality—it actually hasn’t saved that much time, to be honest. It’s made the papers richer and broader, but not necessarily deeper."


00:53:00 如果AI解决了一个问题,人类能从中获得理解吗?

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"Some people are concerned about what happens if the Riemann hypothesis is proven with a completely incomprehensible proof. I think once you have the artifact of a proof, we can do a lot of analysis on it."


00:59:20 我们需要一种用于科学家实际交流的半形式化语言

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"If there’s some framework that mimics how scientists talk to each other in a semi-formal way, using data and argument, but also constructing narratives... There’s some subjective aspect of science that we don’t know how to capture in a way that we can insert AI into it in any useful way. This is a future problem."


01:09:48 陶哲轩如何安排自己的时间

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"You actually do need a certain level of distraction in your life. It adds enough randomness and high temperature. I don’t know the optimal way to schedule my life. It just seems to work."


01:17:05 人机混合将在很长时间内主导数学研究

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"I guess I do believe that hybrid human plus AIs will dominate mathematics for a lot longer. It will depend. It will require some additional breakthroughs beyond what we already have, so it’s going to be stochastic. I think AIs currently are very good at certain things, but really terrible at others. While you can add more and more frameworks on top to reduce the error rates and make them work with each other a bit more, it feels like we don’t have all the ingredients to really have a truly satisfactory replacement for all intellectual tasks."


专业术语注释

术语 解释
行星运动三大定律(Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion) 开普勒提出的描述行星绕太阳运动的规律,包括轨道为椭圆、等面积定律、周期与距离的平方立方定律
柏拉图正多面体(Platonic Solids) 仅有的五种正多面体,开普勒曾试图用其解释行星轨道的大小比例
日心说(Heliocentric Model) 认为太阳是太阳系中心,行星绕太阳运动的天文模型,由哥白尼正式提出
地心说(Geocentric Model) 认为地球是宇宙中心,其他天体绕地球运动的天文模型,由托勒密完善,统治西方科学界千年
平方立方定律(Square-cube Law) 本集中指开普勒第三定律,行星公转周期的平方与轨道半长轴的立方成正比
反平方定律(Inverse-square Law) 牛顿万有引力定律的核心,两个物体之间的引力与距离的平方成反比
埃尔德什问题(Erdős Problems) 数学家埃尔德什提出的数百个未解决的数学问题,多为组合数学、数论领域的经典问题
Lean 一种交互式定理证明器,可将数学证明形式化,验证证明的正确性,当前被广泛用于AI辅助数学研究
黎曼假设(Riemann Hypothesis) 千禧年大奖难题之一,猜想黎曼ζ函数的所有非平凡零点都位于临界线上,是数论领域最重要的未解决问题
四色定理(Four Color Theorem) 任何一张地图只用四种颜色就能使具有共同边界的国家着上不同的颜色,是第一个通过计算机蛮力枚举证明的重要数学定理
ZFC公理体系(Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory with Axiom of Choice) 目前数学界通用的集合论公理体系,是绝大多数数学分支的逻辑基础
素数定理(Prime Number Theorem) 描述素数分布规律的定理,指出不大于X的素数的个数约为X/ln(X)
孪生素数猜想(Twin Prime Conjecture) 猜想存在无穷多对相差为2的素数,是数论领域的经典未解决问题
千禧年大奖难题(Millennium Prize Problems) 2000年克莱数学研究所提出的七个最重要的未解决数学问题,每个问题的解决者可获得100万美元奖金
Transformer 2017年提出的深度学习架构,是当前所有大语言模型的核心基础
贝叶斯概率(Bayesian Probability) 概率的一种解释框架,将概率定义为个人对某一命题为真的信任程度,可根据新证据不断更新

延伸思考

  1. 如何构建可扩展的科研成果验证体系,匹配AI批量生成假设的能力,是未来科研制度改革的核心方向,可探索引入自动化验证、信誉积分等机制提升筛选效率。
  2. 半形式化科研语言的研发是释放AI科研潜力的核心前提,需要跨数学、计算机、科学哲学等多个领域的协作,定义可被机器理解的科研策略、可信度评估规则。
  3. 人机协作的数学研究范式仍处于早期探索阶段,如何划分人类与AI的分工边界、设计高效的协作工作流,是未来数学领域的重要研究课题。
  4. 科研中的随机互动、意外发现的价值被严重低估,在AI工具大幅提升定向搜索效率的同时,需要设计新的机制保留科研中的随机性,避免过度优化导致的范式固化。

原文发表:Mar 20, 2026  ·  纪要生成:2026-04-20