scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence Is Stupid and Causal Reasoning Will Not Fix It

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Mark Bishop

Artificial Neural Networks have reached “grandmaster” and even “super-human” performance across a variety of games, from those involving perfect information, such as Go, to those involving imperfect information, such as “Starcraft”. Such technological developments from artificial intelligence (AI) labs have ushered concomitant applications across the world of business, where an “AI” brand-tag is quickly becoming ubiquitous. A corollary of such widespread commercial deployment is that when AI gets things wrong—an autonomous vehicle crashes, a chatbot exhibits “racist” behavior, automated credit-scoring processes “discriminate” on gender, etc.—there are often significant financial, legal, and brand consequences, and the incident becomes major news. As Judea Pearl sees it, the underlying reason for such mistakes is that “... all the impressive achievements of deep learning amount to just curve fitting.” The key, as Pearl suggests, is to replace “reasoning by association” with “causal reasoning” —the ability to infer causes from observed phenomena. It is a point that was echoed by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis in a recent piece for the New York Times: “we need to stop building computer systems that merely get better and better at detecting statistical patterns in data sets—often using an approach known as ‘Deep Learning’—and start building computer systems that from the moment of their assembly innately grasp three basic concepts: time, space, and causality.” In this paper, foregrounding what in 1949 Gilbert Ryle termed “a category mistake”, I will offer an alternative explanation for AI errors; it is not so much that AI machinery cannot “grasp” causality, but that AI machinery (qua computation) cannot understand anything at all.

Author(s):  
Jay Rodge ◽  
Swati Jaiswal

Deep learning and Artificial intelligence (AI) have been trending these days due to the capability and state-of-the-art results that they provide. They have replaced some highly skilled professionals with neural network-powered AI, also known as deep learning algorithms. Deep learning majorly works on neural networks. This chapter discusses about the working of a neuron, which is a unit component of neural network. There are numerous techniques that can be incorporated while designing a neural network, such as activation functions, training, etc. to improve its features, which will be explained in detail. It has some challenges such as overfitting, which are difficult to neglect but can be overcome using proper techniques and steps that have been discussed. The chapter will help the academician, researchers, and practitioners to further investigate the associated area of deep learning and its applications in the autonomous vehicle industry.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riadh Ayachi ◽  
Yahia ElFahem Said ◽  
Mohamed Atri

Autonomous vehicle is a vehicle that can guide itself without human conduction. It is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input. This kind of vehicle has become a concrete reality and may pave the way for future systems where computers take over the art of driving. Advanced artificial intelligence control systems interpret sensory information to identify appropriate navigation paths, as well as obstacles and relevant road signs. In this paper, we introduce an intelligent road signs classifier to help autonomous vehicles to recognize and understand road signs. The road signs classifier will be based on an artificial intelligence technique. In particular, a deep learning model is used, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). CNN is a widely used Deep Learning model to solve pattern recognition problems like image classification and object detection. CNN has been successfully used to solve computer vision problems because of its methodology in processing images which is similar to the human brain decision making. The evaluation of the proposed pipeline is proved using two different datasets. The proposed CNNs achieved high performance in road sign classification with a validation accuracy of 99.8% and a testing accuracy of 99.6%. The proposed method can be easily implemented for real-time application.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 58-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Junaid ◽  
Asad Saeed ◽  
Zeili Yang ◽  
Thomas Micic ◽  
Rajesh Botchu

The advances in deep learning algorithms, exponential computing power, and availability of digital patient data like never before have led to the wave of interest and investment in artificial intelligence in health care. No radiology conference is complete without a substantial dedication to AI. Many radiology departments are keen to get involved but are unsure of where and how to begin. This short article provides a simple road map to aid departments to get involved with the technology, demystify key concepts, and pique an interest in the field. We have broken down the journey into seven steps; problem, team, data, kit, neural network, validation, and governance.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Pérez-Sianes ◽  
Horacio Pérez-Sánchez ◽  
Fernando Díaz

Background: Automated compound testing is currently the de facto standard method for drug screening, but it has not brought the great increase in the number of new drugs that was expected. Computer- aided compounds search, known as Virtual Screening, has shown the benefits to this field as a complement or even alternative to the robotic drug discovery. There are different methods and approaches to address this problem and most of them are often included in one of the main screening strategies. Machine learning, however, has established itself as a virtual screening methodology in its own right and it may grow in popularity with the new trends on artificial intelligence. Objective: This paper will attempt to provide a comprehensive and structured review that collects the most important proposals made so far in this area of research. Particular attention is given to some recent developments carried out in the machine learning field: the deep learning approach, which is pointed out as a future key player in the virtual screening landscape.


Pathology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. S6
Author(s):  
Jack Garland ◽  
Mindy Hu ◽  
Kilak Kesha ◽  
Charley Glenn ◽  
Michael Duffy ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jared Hamwood ◽  
Beat Schmutz ◽  
Michael J. Collins ◽  
Mark C. Allenby ◽  
David Alonso-Caneiro

AbstractThis paper proposes a fully automatic method to segment the inner boundary of the bony orbit in two different image modalities: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT). The method, based on a deep learning architecture, uses two fully convolutional neural networks in series followed by a graph-search method to generate a boundary for the orbit. When compared to human performance for segmentation of both CT and MRI data, the proposed method achieves high Dice coefficients on both orbit and background, with scores of 0.813 and 0.975 in CT images and 0.930 and 0.995 in MRI images, showing a high degree of agreement with a manual segmentation by a human expert. Given the volumetric characteristics of these imaging modalities and the complexity and time-consuming nature of the segmentation of the orbital region in the human skull, it is often impractical to manually segment these images. Thus, the proposed method provides a valid clinical and research tool that performs similarly to the human observer.


2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 242-245
Author(s):  
Jootaek Lee

The term, Artificial Intelligence (AI), has changed since it was first coined by John MacCarthy in 1956. AI, believed to have been created with Kurt Gödel's unprovable computational statements in 1931, is now called deep learning or machine learning. AI is defined as a computer machine with the ability to make predictions about the future and solve complex tasks, using algorithms. The AI algorithms are enhanced and become effective with big data capturing the present and the past while still necessarily reflecting human biases into models and equations. AI is also capable of making choices like humans, mirroring human reasoning. AI can help robots to efficiently repeat the same labor intensive procedures in factories and can analyze historic and present data efficiently through deep learning, natural language processing, and anomaly detection. Thus, AI covers a spectrum of augmented intelligence relating to prediction, autonomous intelligence relating to decision making, automated intelligence for labor robots, and assisted intelligence for data analysis.


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