{"id":49,"date":"2017-03-01T06:23:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T06:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juansequeda.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2017-03-01T06:23:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T06:23:12","slug":"a-refreshing-no-fluff-no-buzzword-perspective-on-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juansequeda.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/01\/a-refreshing-no-fluff-no-buzzword-perspective-on-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"A Refreshing, No-Fluff, No-Buzzword Perspective on Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I encountered this refreshing and excellent summary of Artificial Intelligence by John Launchbury<\/a>, the Director of DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O). Thanks Frank van Harmelen<\/a> for posting this!<\/p>\n

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No fluff. No buzzwords.\u00a0It is crisp and succinct explanation of the state of AI today and where it is going. Deep learning wasn’t\u00a0even mentioned!<\/p>\n

The quickly summary is that AI up to now can be summarize in two waves:<\/p>\n

First Wave: Handcrafted Knowledge<\/em> which is very good at reasoning but not very good a perceiving the outside world. It is not good for learning nor abstracting.<\/p>\n

Handcrafted Knowledge:\u00a0<\/em>Enables reasoning over narrowly defined problems. No learning capability and poor handling of uncertainty<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Second Wave: Statistical Learning which is good a perceiving and learning but it is not so good for reasoning and abstracting.<\/p>\n

Statistical Learning: Nuanced classifications and predication capabilities. No contextual capability and minimal reasoning ability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The\u00a0next Wave, noted as Contextual adaptation\u00a0<\/em>is where systems can construct explanatory models that explain real world phenomena.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My take away from this is that GOFAI (Good Old Fashion AI<\/a>)\u00a0is still active and relevant and\u00a0by combining it with Machine Learning, we will enter the next wave of AI which can provide answers to the why (context).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n