Reliable Autonomous Systems
Scott Gerard
Neil Yorke-Smith recently gave a lecture titled “Towards a Framework for Certification of Reliable Autonomous Systems” where he discussed many points from his and his co-author’s paper on arXiv. This is an extremely important topic in AI and multiagent systems, but there are still too …
How should we understand the word “Understand”
What does the word “understand” mean?. From the outside, is it possible to know whether someone — or some AI — “understands” you. What does that even mean? I assert that if you “understand” something, then you can answer questions and perform tasks based on …
Complex Adaptive Systems
John H. Miller and Scott E. Page, in their book Complex Adaptive Systems, discuss a number of topics we all presume we know, but that are seldom explicitly discussed. For example, they have really nice descriptions of modeling and emergence. They also talk about “computation …
We Must Not Loose Control of Artificial Intelligence
There have been lots of science fiction stories where a scientist creates a technology with the best of intentions, but then something unforeseen happens, and the technology gets away from him. The book Frankenstein was probably the first. The movie Trancendence is a recent example where an AI project …
Artificial Intelligence and Patents
I recently had the privilege to speak at the 21st Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property Law and Policy I was on a panel with IP professionals from Patterson+Sheridan and Navid Alipour from Analytic Ventures. I gave a brief introduction to AI and machine learning to set the stage for our …
