The Big Data Challenge - Shaping AI: Recommendations By Virginia Dignum - Big Data Value

Virginia Dignum is professor at the Department of Computing Science at Umea University in Sweden. She is also member of, among others, the European Commission High Level Expert Group on AI, the World Economic Forum Council on AI, the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethically Aligned Design of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems and the European Global Forum on AI (AI4People). She has written a series of blogs for the website Medium.com, on which the content of this blogpost is based. You can find the hyperlinks to her blogs at the bottom of this page. Facing the challenge of bringing together many views from different disciplines on what AI exactly entails, Virginia's definition of AI offers an overarching perspective: "(…) AI is the discipline of developing computer systems that are able of perceiving their environment, with the ability to deliberate how to best act in order to achieve its own goals, while taking into account that the environment contains other actors similar to itself." She continues by explaining that AI is about the autonomy on deciding how to act, adapting to changes in the environment, including to actions and aims of other agents in that environment and then deciding how to act.