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What If Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) Ruled the World?

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What if instead of political parties, presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens, armies, autocrats, and who knows what else, we turned everything over to expert systems? What if we engineered them to be faithful, for example, to one simple principle: "human beings regardless of age, gender, race, origin, religion, location, intelligence, income or wealth, should be treated equally, fairly and consistently"? Here's some dialogue – enabled by natural language processing (NLP) – with an expert system named "Decider" that operates from that single principle (you can imagine how it might behave if the principle was completely different – the opposite of equal and fair). The principle is supported by the data and probabilities the system collects and interprets. The "inferences" made by Decider are pre-programmed.


The State of Dark Data - Research Report - www.smtware.com

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Path Ranking with Attention to Type Hierarchies

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The knowledge base completion problem is the problem of inferring missing information from existing facts in knowledge bases. Path-ranking based methods use sequences of relations as general patterns of paths for prediction. However, these patterns usually lack accuracy because they are generic and can often apply to widely varying scenarios. We leverage type hierarchies of entities to create a new class of path patterns that are both discriminative and generalizable. Then we propose an attention-based RNN model, which can be trained end-to-end, to discover the new path patterns most suitable for the data. Experiments conducted on two benchmark knowledge base completion datasets demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms existing methods by a statistically significant margin. Our quantitative analysis of the path patterns shows that they balance between generalization and discrimination.


Triple-to-Text: Converting RDF Triples into High-Quality Natural Languages via Optimizing an Inverse KL Divergence

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Knowledge base is one of the main forms to represent information in a structured way. A knowledge base typically consists of Resource Description Frameworks (RDF) triples which describe the entities and their relations. Generating natural language description of the knowledge base is an important task in NLP, which has been formulated as a conditional language generation task and tackled using the sequence-to-sequence framework. Current works mostly train the language models by maximum likelihood estimation, which tends to generate lousy sentences. In this paper, we argue that such a problem of maximum likelihood estimation is intrinsic, which is generally irrevocable via changing network structures. Accordingly, we propose a novel Triple-to-Text (T2T) framework, which approximately optimizes the inverse Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between the distributions of the real and generated sentences. Due to the nature that inverse KL imposes large penalty on fake-looking samples, the proposed method can significantly reduce the probability of generating low-quality sentences. Our experiments on three real-world datasets demonstrate that T2T can generate higher-quality sentences and outperform baseline models in several evaluation metrics.


Online Learning Made Simple - Anytime, Anywhere Simpliv

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Artificial Intelligence has come a long way from being the stuff of science fiction movies and books to becoming an integral part of our daily lives. Today, AI is one of the fastest growing global industries. Investments and experiments in AI have been taking place all around the world. Given its unimaginably wide range of uses; AI is a field of expertise that is set to grow in a very huge way over the coming years. AI professionals are among the highest paid in the field of IT. Ans: Artificial Intelligence is a part of computer science that aims to create machine that are intelligent and seek to work and react the way humans do. Q2)What to you understand by an artificial intelligence Neural Network?


A Note on Reasoning on $\textit{DL-Lite}_{\cal R}$ with Defeasibility

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Representation of defeasible information is of interest in description logics, as it is related to the need of accommodating exceptional instances in knowledge bases. In this direction, in our previous works we presented a datalog translation for reasoning on (contextualized) OWL RL knowledge bases with a notion of justified exceptions on defeasible axioms. While it covers a relevant fragment of OWL, the resulting reasoning process needs a complex encoding in order to capture reasoning on negative information. In this paper, we consider the case of knowledge bases in $\textit{DL-Lite}_{\cal R}$, i.e. the language underlying OWL QL. We provide a definition for $\textit{DL-Lite}_{\cal R}$ knowledge bases with defeasible axioms and study their properties. The limited form of $\textit{DL-Lite}_{\cal R}$ axioms allows us to formulate a simpler encoding into datalog (under answer set semantics) with direct rules for reasoning on negative information. The resulting materialization method gives rise to a complete reasoning procedure for instance checking in $\textit{DL-Lite}_{\cal R}$ with defeasible axioms.


Naive probability

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Historically, the theory of probability emerged from the efforts of Pascal and Fermat in the 1650s to solve problems posed by a gambler, Chevalier de Méré (Rényi, 1972; Devlin, 2008), and reached its current form in Kolmogorov, 1933. Remarkably, not even highly experienced gamblers can extract high precision probability estimates from observed data: one of de Méré's questions concerned comparing the probabilities of getting at least one 6 in four rolls of one die (p 0.5177) and getting at least one double-6 in 24 throws of a pair of dice (p 0.4914). Four decades later, Samuel Pepys is asking Newton to discern the difference between at least two 6s when 12 dice are rolled (p 0.6187) and at least 3 6s when 18 dice are rolled (p 0.5973). In this paper we make this phenomenon, the very limited ability of people to deal with probabilities, the focal point of our inquiry. These limitations, we will argue, go beyond the well understood limits of numerosity (Dehaene, 1997), and touch upon areas such as cognitive limits of deduction (Kracht, 2011) and default inheritance (Etherington, 1987). We will offer a model of the naive/commonsensical theory of probability. In Section 2 we discuss likeliness, which we take to be a valuation of propositions on a discrete (seven-point) scale. In Section 3 we turn to the inference mechanism supported by the naive theory, akin to Jeffreys-style probability updates. In Section 4 we briefly sketch the background theory and discuss what we take to be the central concern, learnability.


Prediction of Construction Cost for Field Canals Improvement Projects in Egypt

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Field canals improvement projects (FCIPs) are one of the ambitious projects constructed to save fresh water. To finance this project, Conceptual cost models are important to accurately predict preliminary costs at the early stages of the project. The first step is to develop a conceptual cost model to identify key cost drivers affecting the project. Therefore, input variables selection remains an important part of model development, as the poor variables selection can decrease model precision. The study discovered the most important drivers of FCIPs based on a qualitative approach and a quantitative approach. Subsequently, the study has developed a parametric cost model based on machine learning methods such as regression methods, artificial neural networks, fuzzy model and case-based reasoning.


On Rational Monotony and Weak Rational Monotony for Inference Relations Induced by Sets of Minimal C-Representations

AAAI Conferences

Reasoning in the context of a conditional knowledge base containing rules of the form ’If A then usually B’ can be defined in terms of preference relations on possible worlds. These preference relations can be modeled by ranking functions that assign a degree of disbelief to each possible world. In general, there are multiple ranking functions that accept a given knowledge base. Several nonmonotonic inference relations have been proposed using c-representations, a subset of all ranking functions. These inference relations take subsets of all c-representations based on various notions of minimality into account, and they operate in different inference modes, i.e., skeptical, weakly skeptical, or credulous. For nonmonotonic inference relations, weaker versions of monotonicity like rational monotony (RM) and weak rational monotony (WRM) have been developed. In this paper, we investigate which of the inference relations induced by sets of minimal c-representations satisfy rational monotony or weak rational monotony.


Neural Query Language: A Knowledge Base Query Language for Tensorflow

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Large knowledge bases (KBs) are useful for many AI tasks, but are difficult to integrate into modern gradient-based learning systems. Here we describe a framework for accessing soft symbolic database using only differentiable operators. For example, this framework makes it easy to conveniently write neural models that adjust confidences associated with facts in a soft KB; incorporate prior knowledge in the form of hand-coded KB access rules; or learn to instantiate query templates using information extracted from text. NQL can work well with KBs with millions of tuples and hundreds of thousands of entities on a single GPU.