AI Token Ecology Core Concepts

Within the theoretical framework of contemporary generative artificial intelligence, Token Ecology provides a perspective that transcends linear language models, viewing tokens as constituting a multi-layered, multi-species associative ecosystem within AI language models. In Token Ecology, tokens do not exist in isolation, but rather within AI language models, tokens (word units, symbolic units) are generated, transmitted, interact, and evolve in an ecosystem-dynamic manner, forming multi-layered symbiotic or parasitic structures with human language, corpora, social culture, and platform media as a holistic view.

Three core metaphors as the theoretical foundation :

  • Infopiphytism: Information Epiphytic Metaphor
  • Infoparasitism: Information Parasitic Metaphor
  • Infosymbiosis: Information Symbiotic Metaphor

人工智慧符號生態學核心概念

在當代生成式人工智慧的理論框架中,Token Ecology(符號生態學) 提供一種超越線性語言模型的視角,將 tokens 視作在 AI 語言模型內部構成一個多層次、多物種關聯的生態系統。Token Ecology中 Token 並非孤立存在,是在 AI 語言模型內部,tokens(詞元、符號單位)以生態系統動態的方式被生成、傳遞、互動、演化,並與人類語言、語料、社會文化、平台媒介形成多層次共生或寄生結構的整體觀。

三種核心隱喻的理論基礎:

  • Infopiphytism: 資訊附生隱喻 (Epiphytic Metaphor)
  • Infoparasitism: 資訊寄生隱喻 (Parasitic Metaphor)
  • Infosymbiosis: 資訊共生隱喻 (Symbiotic Metaphor)

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