Is social intelligence the future of AI?

Although Siri and Google Assistant have the ability to schedule meetings on request, they do not have the social awareness to independently prioritise the appointments. A team of researchers has argued that the future of AI calls for the implementation of social intelligence to ensure that the growth of the technology is not stunted by a lack of social skills. The work, 'Artificial Social Intelligence: A Comparative and Holistic View,' is published in CAAI Artificial Intelligence Research. "Artificial Intelligence has changed our society and our daily life," said first author Lifeng Fan, National Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI). "What is the next important challenge for AI in the future? We argue that Artificial Social Intelligence (ASI) is the future of AI." ASI includes multiple siloed subfields, including social perception, Theory of Mind, and social interaction.