AI: Limits and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence

The emergence of artificial intelligence has triggered enthusiasm and promise of boundless opportunities as much as uncertainty about its limits. The contributions to this volume explore the limits of AI, describe the necessary conditions for its functionality, reveal its attendant technical and social problems, and present some existing and potential solutions. At the same time, the contributors highlight the societal and attending economic hopes and fears, utopias and dystopias that are associated with the current and future development of artificial intelligence

Uma nova abordagem de aprendizagem de máquina combinando elicitação automática de casos, aprendizagem por reforço e mineração de padrões sequenciais para agentes jogadores de damas

ake into account, in addition to the environment, the minimizing action of an opponent (such as in games), it is fundamental that the agent has the ability to progressively trace a proĄle of its adversary that aids it in the process of selecting appropriate actions. However, it would be unsuitable to construct an agent with a decision-making system based on only the elaboration of this proĄle, as this would prevent the agent from having its Şown identityŤ, which would leave it at the mercy of its opponent. Following this direction, this work proposes an automatic hybrid Checkers player, called ACE-RL-Checkers, equipped with a dynamic decision-making mechanism, which adapts to the proĄle of its opponent over the course of the game. In such a system, the action selection process (moves) is conducted through a composition of Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Network and case library. In the case, Neural Network represents the ŞidentityŤ of the agent, i.e., it is an already trained static decision-making module and makes use of the Reinforcement Learning TD( ) techniques. On the other hand, the case library represents the dynamic decision-making module of the agent, which is generated by the Automatic Case Elicitation technique (a particular type of Case-Based Reasoning). This technique has a pseudo-random exploratory behavior, which makes the dynamic decision-making on the part of the agent to be directed, either by the game proĄle of the opponent or randomly. However, when devising such an architecture, it is necessary to avoid the following problem: due to the inherent characteristics of the Automatic Case Elicitation technique, in the game initial phases, in which the quantity of available cases in the library is extremely low due to low knowledge content concerning the proĄle of the adversary, the decisionmaking frequency for random decisions is extremely high, which would be detrimental to the performance of the agent. In order to attack this problem, this work also proposes to incorporate onto the ACE-RL-Checkers architecture a third module composed of a base of experience rules, extracted from games played by human experts, using a Sequential Pattern Mining technique. The objective behind using such a base is to reĄne and accelerate the adaptation of the agent to the proĄle of its opponent in the initial phases of their confrontations. Experimental results conducted in tournaments involving ACE-RL-Checkers and other agents correlated with this work, conĄrm the superiority of the dynamic architecture proposed herein.Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas GeraisTese (Doutorado)Agentes que operam em ambientes onde as tomadas de decisão precisam levar em conta, além do ambiente, a atuação minimizadora de um oponente (tal como nos jogos), é fundamental que o agente seja dotado da habilidade de, progressivamente, traçar um perĄl de seu adversário que o auxilie em seu processo de seleção de ações apropriadas. Entretanto, seria improdutivo construir um agente com um sistema de tomada de decisão baseado apenas na elaboração desse perĄl, pois isso impediria o agente de ter uma Şidentidade própriaŤ, o que o deixaria a mercê de seu adversário. Nesta direção, este trabalho propõe um sistema automático jogador de Damas híbrido, chamado ACE-RL-Checkers, dotado de um mecanismo dinâmico de tomada de decisões que se adapta ao perĄl de seu oponente no decorrer de um jogo. Em tal sistema, o processo de seleção de ações (movimentos) é conduzido por uma composição de Rede Neural de Perceptron Multicamadas e biblioteca de casos. No caso, a Rede Neural representa a ŞidentidadeŤ do agente, ou seja, é um módulo tomador de decisões estático já treinado e que faz uso da técnica de Aprendizagem por Reforço TD( ). Por outro lado, a biblioteca de casos representa o módulo tomador de decisões dinâmico do agente que é gerada pela técnica de Elicitação Automática de Casos (um tipo particular de Raciocínio Baseado em Casos). Essa técnica possui um comportamento exploratório pseudo-aleatório que faz com que a tomada de decisão dinâmica do agente seja guiada, ora pelo perĄl de jogo do adversário, ora aleatoriamente. Contudo, ao conceber tal arquitetura, é necessário evitar o seguinte problema: devido às características inerentes à técnica de Elicitação Automática de Casos, nas fases iniciais do jogo Ű em que a quantidade de casos disponíveis na biblioteca é extremamente baixa em função do exíguo conhecimento do perĄl do adversário Ű a frequência de tomadas de decisão aleatórias seria muito elevada, o que comprometeria o desempenho do agente. Para atacar tal problema, este trabalho também propõe incorporar à arquitetura do ACE-RLCheckers um terceiro módulo, composto por uma base de regras de experiência extraída a partir de jogos de especialistas humanos, utilizando uma técnica de Mineração de Padrões Sequenciais. O objetivo de utilizar tal base é reĄnar e acelerar a adaptação do agente ao perĄl de seu adversário nas fases iniciais dos confrontos entre eles. Resultados experimentais conduzidos em torneio envolvendo ACE-RL-Checkers e outros agentes correlacionados com este trabalho, conĄrmam a superioridade da arquitetura dinâmica aqui proposta

Multidisciplinary perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the law

This open access book presents an interdisciplinary, multi-authored, edited collection of chapters on Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) and the Law. AI technology has come to play a central role in the modern data economy. Through a combination of increased computing power, the growing availability of data and the advancement of algorithms, AI has now become an umbrella term for some of the most transformational technological breakthroughs of this age. The importance of AI stems from both the opportunities that it offers and the challenges that it entails. While AI applications hold the promise of economic growth and efficiency gains, they also create significant risks and uncertainty. The potential and perils of AI have thus come to dominate modern discussions of technology and ethics – and although AI was initially allowed to largely develop without guidelines or rules, few would deny that the law is set to play a fundamental role in shaping the future of AI. As the debate over AI is far from over, the need for rigorous analysis has never been greater. This book thus brings together contributors from different fields and backgrounds to explore how the law might provide answers to some of the most pressing questions raised by AI. An outcome of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law and its interdisciplinary working group on Law and Artificial Intelligence, it includes contributions by leading scholars in the fields of technology, ethics and the law.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Southern Accent September 2008 - April 2009

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Knowledge Augmented Machine Learning with Applications in Autonomous Driving: A Survey

The existence of representative datasets is a prerequisite of many successful artificial intelligence and machine learning models. However, the subsequent application of these models often involves scenarios that are inadequately represented in the data used for training. The reasons for this are manifold and range from time and cost constraints to ethical considerations. As a consequence, the reliable use of these models, especially in safety-critical applications, is a huge challenge. Leveraging additional, already existing sources of knowledge is key to overcome the limitations of purely data-driven approaches, and eventually to increase the generalization capability of these models. Furthermore, predictions that conform with knowledge are crucial for making trustworthy and safe decisions even in underrepresented scenarios. This work provides an overview of existing techniques and methods in the literature that combine data-based models with existing knowledge. The identified approaches are structured according to the categories integration, extraction and conformity. Special attention is given to applications in the field of autonomous driving

Safety and Reliability - Safe Societies in a Changing World

The contributions cover a wide range of methodologies and application areas for safety and reliability that contribute to safe societies in a changing world. These methodologies and applications include: - foundations of risk and reliability assessment and management - mathematical methods in reliability and safety - risk assessment - risk management - system reliability - uncertainty analysis - digitalization and big data - prognostics and system health management - occupational safety - accident and incident modeling - maintenance modeling and applications - simulation for safety and reliability analysis - dynamic risk and barrier management - organizational factors and safety culture - human factors and human reliability - resilience engineering - structural reliability - natural hazards - security - economic analysis in risk managemen