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Temporal Reasoning in AI systems

Sharma, Abhishek

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Commonsense temporal reasoning at scale is a core problem for cognitive systems. The correct inference of the duration for which fluents hold is required by many tasks, including natural language understanding and planning. Many AI systems have limited deductive closure because they cannot extrapolate information correctly regarding existing fluents and events. In this study, we discuss the knowledge representation and reasoning schemes required for robust temporal projection in the Cyc Knowledge Base. We discuss how events can start and end risk periods for fluents. We then use discrete survival functions, which represent knowledge of the persistence of facts, to extrapolate a given fluent. The extrapolated intervals can be truncated by temporal constraints and other types of commonsense knowledge. Finally, we present the results of experiments to demonstrate that these methods obtain significant improvements in terms of Q/A performance.


Are conscious machines possible? - Big Think

Oxford Comp Sci

MICHAEL WOOLDRIDGE: AI is not about trying to create life, right? But it's kind of, very much feels like that. I mean, if we ever achieved the ultimate dream of AI, which I call the "Hollywood dream of AI," the kind of thing that we see in Hollywood movies, then we will have created machines that are conscious, potentially, in the same way that human beings are. So it's very like that kind of dream of creating life- and that, in itself, is a very old dream. It goes back to the ancient Greeks: The Greeks had myths about the blacksmiths to the gods who could create life from metal creatures.


Council Post: How AI Is Cropping Up In The Agriculture Industry

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Wendy Gonzalez is the CEO of Sama, the provider of accurate data for ambitious AI. The population has doubled since 1974, and today, there are 8 billion humans living on this planet. While population growth has slowed, at the current rate, we should reach 9 billion in 15 years. What does it take to feed all these people? When John McCarthy coined the term "artificial intelligence" in 1955 as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines," could he have imagined technology's effect on our ever-growing food supply needs?


What is Artificial Intelligence? Guide to AI

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By any measure, artificial intelligence (AI) has become big business. According to Gartner, customers worldwide will spend $62.5 billion on AI software in 2022. And it notes that 48 percent of CIOs have either already deployed some sort of AI software or plan to do so within the next twelve months. All that spending has attracted a huge crop of startups focused on AI-based products. CB Insights reported that AI funding hit $15.1 billion in the first quarter of 2022 alone.


Who Invented Artificial Intelligence? Update 2022 - High-Tech Magazine

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The world of Artificial intelligence is not a new concept for researchers. This technology has been discovered and is constantly being developed for an unimaginably long period. There are still some myths found that give hints of Mechanical men in Ancient Greek and Egypt. The answer to a frequently asked question of who invented Artificial intelligence is very broad, as many people contributed to the invention and timely success. It goes back to the classic philosophers who attempted to portray human thinking as a symbolic system.


What is Artificial Intelligence?

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Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions. The term may also be applied to any machine that exhibits traits associated with a human mind such as learning and problem-solving. Who is the father of Artificial Intelligence? Artificial Intelligence as a research study field was born in the summer of 1956 during the course of a crucial workshop at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. It was just a year before when Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, Claude Shannon, and John McCarthy proposed that they should hold a workshop to put together a roadmap about how to make machines think and learn similarly to human beings.


What is Artificial Intelligence?

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Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions. The term may also be applied to any machine that exhibits traits associated with a human mind such as learning and problem-solving. Who is the father of Artificial Intelligence? Artificial Intelligence as a research study field was born in the summer of 1956 during the course of a crucial workshop at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. It was just a year before when Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, Claude Shannon, and John McCarthy proposed that they should hold a workshop to put together a roadmap about how to make machines think and learn similarly to human beings.


Why Machine Learning is not Artificial Intelligence?

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It is simple: because ML is only a contributing branch of AI. If we follow Norvig and Russell book -and other authors-, saying that machine learning is equivalent to artificial intelligence is grossly misleading. ML is a contributing discipline of AI, just like search, reasoning, planning, decision making, natural language processing, vision, and robotics. For instance, ML by itself cannot be intelligent because lacks reasoning, planning, logic, and doesn't interact with the environment. ML detects patterns and performs predictions based on statistical analysis of data using math based algorithms. These algorithms are not intelligent per se.


Knowing John McCarthy: The Father Of Artificial Intelligence - AI Summary

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As per report of, "Recent results from a large survey of machine learning researchers predict AI will outperform humans in many activities in the next ten years, such as translating languages (by 2024) all the way to working as a surgeon (by 2053). Researchers also believe there is a 50% chance of AI outperforming humans in all tasks in 45 years and of automating all human jobs in 120 years." Nearly every aspect of our lives is being affected by artificial intelligence machines in order to boost profitability and enhance our human capabilities. After playing a significant role in defining the area devoted to the creation of intelligent machines, John McCarthy, an American computer scientist pioneer and inventor, was called the "Father of Artificial Intelligence." In his 1955 proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference, the first artificial intelligence conference, the cognitive scientist coined the term.


Knowing John McCarthy: The Father of Artificial Intelligence

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It is undeniable that the technology industry has seen a wide variety of innovations over the years. The use of artificial intelligence at any level has proved to be fantastic. It automated a significant number of workers, reducing human effort and has led everyone to believe that there is even more to come. As per report of Artificial Solutions, "Recent results from a large survey of machine learning researchers predict AI will outperform humans in many activities in the next ten years, such as translating languages (by 2024) all the way to working as a surgeon (by 2053). Researchers also believe there is a 50% chance of AI outperforming humans in all tasks in 45 years and of automating all human jobs in 120 years."