AIhub monthly digest: March 2023 – plant disease diagnosis, logic for trustworthy AI, and neurosymbolic approaches

Learning-based solutions are efficient, but are they trustworthy enough to be embedded in a robot cooperating with or assisting humans? In this blogpost, Daniele Meli explores this question, and reviews logic programming as a route to trustworthy autonomous (and cooperative) robotic systems. As part of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2023), 32 different workshops were held, covering a wide range of topics. We heard from the organisers of four of these workshops, who told us their key takeaways from their respective events. These were split into two articles: 1) #AAAI2023 workshops round-up 1: AI for credible elections, and responsible human-centric AI, and 2) #AAAI2023 workshops round-up 2: health intelligence and privacy-preserving AI. Hosted by the Alan Turing Institute, AI UK is a two-day conference that showcases artificial intelligence and data science research, development, and policy in the UK. This year, the event took place on 21 and 22 March, and we covered the panel discussion session on the role and impact of science journalism. AAAI have updated their publication policy to deal with AI systems: "It is AAAI's policy that any AI system, including Generative Models such as Chat-GPT, BARD, and DALL-E, does not satisfy the criteria for authorship of papers published by AAAI and, as such, also cannot be used as a citable source in papers published by AAAI".