AI Magazine

In this presidential address, I would like to start with a personal reflection on the field and then share with you the research directions I am pursuing and my excitement about the future of AI. In my personal research to advance AI while ...

Stickers are popularly used while messaging to visually express nuanced thoughts. We describe a real‐time sticker recommendation (SR) system. We decompose SR into two steps: predict the message that is likely to be sent, and substitute that ...

With the rise of intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs), there is a necessary rise in human effort to identify conversations containing misunderstood user inputs. These conversations uncover error in natural language understanding and help ...

Today, most of the large‐scale conversational AI agents such as Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant are built using manually annotated data to train the different components of the system including automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been beneficial for humanity, improving many human activities. However, there are now significant dangers that may increase when AI reaches a human level of intelligence or superintelligence. It is paramount to ...

Autonomous agents acting in the real‐world often operate based on models that ignore certain aspects of the environment. The incompleteness of any given model – handcrafted or machine acquired – is inevitable due to practical limitations of any ...

Autonomous agents have many applications in familiar situations, but they also have great potential to help us understand novel settings. In this paper, I propose a new challenge for the AI research community: developing embodied systems that not ...

The ongoing debate between symbolic and connectionist AI attends to some of the most fundamental issues in the field. In this column, I briefly review the evolution of the unfolding discussion. I also point out that there is a lot more to ...