President's Message

WE NEED BETTER STANDARDS FOR AI RESEARCH The state of the art in any science includes the criteria for evaluating research. Like every other aspect of the science, it has to be developed. In my previous message I grumbled about there being insufficient basic research, but one of the reasons for this is the difficulty of evaluating whether a piece of research has made basic progress. It seems that evaluation should be based on the kind of advance the research purports to be. I haven't been able to develop a complete set of criteria, but here are some considerations.