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Reports of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s 2021 Fall Symposium Series
Adam Amos-Binks, Shelly Bagchi, Erik Blasch, Mihai Boicu, Dustin Dannenhauer, Thomas E. Doyle, Leilani Gilpin, Anuj Karpatne, Aisling Kelliher, Reuth Mirsky, Nikhil Muralidhar, Audrey Reinert, Reza Samavi, Elizabeth Sklar, Gita Sukthankar, Megan Zimmerman
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s 2021 Fall Symposium Series was held virtually from November 4-6, 2021. There were seven symposia in the fall program: Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Intelligence in the Government and Public Sector, Cognitive Systems for Anticipatory Thinking, Computational Theory of Mind for Human-Machine Teams, 5 Human Partnership with Medical AI: Design, Operationalization, and Ethics, Science-Guided AI, and Where AI Meets Food Security: Intelligent Approaches for Climate-Aware Agriculture.
Reports of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s 17th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment
Michael Buro, Quinn Kybartas, and Santiago Ontañón
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s 2021 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment was held October 11-15, 2021. There were three workshops in the program: Experimental AI in Games, Programming Languages in Entertainment, and Strategy Games. This report contains summaries of some, but not all symposia.
ICAIL 2021 – the 18th International Conference for Artificial Intelligence and Law
The 18th International Conference for Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2021) was organized at the University of São Paulo School of Law, Brazil. For the first time, the ICAIL conference was organized entirely online, due to the overall Covid-19 pandemic situation. Despite unusual circumstances, the ICAIL 2021 was a success, attracting almost 1400 registered participants and offering a rich, diverse program.
The Success of Conversational AI and the AI Evaluation Challenge it Reveals
By Ian Beaver
Research interest in Conversational AI has experienced a massive growth over the last few years and several recent advancements have enabled systems to produce rich and varied turns in conversations similar to humans. However, this apparent creativity is also creating a real challenge in the objective evaluation of such systems as authors are becoming reliant on crowd worker opinions as the primary measurement of success and, so far, few papers are reporting all that is necessary for others to compare against in their own crowd experiments. This challenge is not unique to ConvAI, but demonstrates as AI systems mature in more “human” tasks that involve creativity and variation, evaluation strategies need to mature with them.
The Seventeenth International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2021): A Report
Juan Carlos Augusto, Philippe Lalanda, Massimo Mecella
Intelligent Environments are populated with numerous devices and have multiple occupants, inherently exhibit increasingly intelligent behaviour, support consistent functionality and human-centric operation (humans, as opposed to mere users, have increased requirements from a system, including, for example, intuitive interaction, protection of privacy, fault-tolerance etc.), and provide optimized resource usage. The development of Intelligent Environments is considered the first and primary step towards the realization of the Ambient Intelligence vision and requires input from research and contributions from several scientific and engineering disciplines, including computer science, software engineering, artificial intelligence, architecture, social sciences, art and design. The series of IE conferences have been consistently creating a unique blend of researchers in these disciplines, fostering cross-disciplinary discussions, debate and collaborations.
Ask-Me-Anything
AI experts answer your questions! See all of our AMAs. Your questions will be submitted to these guests and a video will be recorded with their answers and posted on the Interactive AI Magazine and in the weekly AI Alert.
Ask your questions to Dr. Myers here!
For our fifth AMA, we have Karen Myers, Ph.D. Dr. Myers is the Lab Director for SRI International’s Artificial Intelligence Center.
Dr. Myers’ research focuses on intelligent systems that facilitate man-machine collaboration. Her expertise includes autonomy, multi-agent systems, automated planning and scheduling, and intelligent assistants. She has led the development of several AI technologies that have been successfully transitioned into operational use in areas that span collaboration tools, task management, and end-user automation.
Dr. Myers has served on the Executive Council for the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). She was on the editorial boards for Artificial Intelligence and the Journal for AI Research and the advisory board for ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. She is the conference chair for the Innovative Applications of AI conference for 2019. She was elected SRI Fellow in 2016.
Myers has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from the University of Toronto, and a degree in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music.