
10月14日,之江实验室在第六届智能计算创新论坛上启动“未来数学计划”。该计划旨在通过研发数学基础模型、形式化验证、研究AI数学机理及跨学科赋能,构建“AI+数学”创新共同体,推动基础研究与科学前沿发展。
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该计划在第六届智能计算创新论坛上由之江实验室与Science/AAAS共同发布。计划核心在于探索人工智能与数学研究的深度融合路径。
中新网杭州10月14日电(鲍梦妮)10月14日,在Science/AAAS与之江实验室共同举办的第六届智能计算创新论坛上,中国科学院院士、浙江大学数学高等研究院院长励建书,中国工程院院士、之江实验室主任王坚共同启动“未来数学计划”。
据悉,该计划围绕AI与数学双向赋能,将重点开展四个方面的开放创新。一是研发数学基础模型,让模型具备整合各个数学分支知识的能力,同时推动数学推理能力成为科学基础模型的底层能力。二是开展形式化验证研究,让AI生成的数学内容可验证、可累积、可复用,为可靠的数学推理及前沿问题探索提供支撑。三是研究AI背后的数学机理。探索从原理上解释AI模型的学习、泛化、长链条推理等关键问题,以新的理论推动AI前沿发展。四是推动数学基础能力赋能其他学科,探索将数学理论更好地融入跨学科科学研究,为整个基础学科体系提供支撑。
励建书表示,面对全新的时代,“未来数学计划”将建立一个完全开放的创新合作机制,希望专注于AI创新的科研机构、专业的数学研究机构及团队、富有创新活力和实践能力的民营企业以及对数学和人工智能有热爱的个人都能够参与到计划中来,建立“AI+数学”创新共同体,探索数学研究与AI深度融合发展的新路径,推动基础研究与科学前沿发展。
A team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered the oldest known amber fossils so far in the Middle Devonian coal seams of the Junggar Basin in Xinjiang, which is about 385 million years old, 65 million years earlier than the previous record. Research suggests that the ability to synthesize complex resins may have existed in primitive vascular plants long before the emergence of seed plants, and that the resins may have originally been used for protection against wildfires and fungi rather than insect defense. The team extracted tiny amber particles through ultraviolet fluorescence scanning and microscopy manual sample selection, and confirmed their chemical characteristics using infrared spectroscopy and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

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