Here are some of my take-aways from the AAAI-15 artificial intelligence conference this year. How Far Has AI Come?  Having come from some involvement in AI back in the 90’s, it is very interesting to note that there is a bit of AI here that looks a whole lot like AI did back then, especially in […]

My observations from the 4th full day of sessions at the AAAI-15 artificial intelligence conference in Austin, Texas. von Neumann’s Dream Talk by Michael Bowling discussing games and applicability to AI, etc.  3 weeks ago Bowling’s team was able to announce that “poker has been solved”. Stats on game history:  2007 checkers “solved”.   1996 Kasparov loses. […]

My observations from the 3rd full day of sessions at the AAAI-15 artificial intelligence conference in Austin, Texas. Intelligent Decisions I missed most of this particular talk, so a bit of this is second-hand.  Here’s what I’ve been able to gather from it. Talk is mostly about what has been happening with IBM research, most of […]

My observations from the 2nd full day of sessions at the AAAI-15 artificial intelligence conference in Austin, Texas. “Statistical Parsing with a Context-Free Grammar and Word Statistics” (no show) “Task-Oriented Planning for Manipulating Articulated Mechanisms Under Model Uncertainty” Task of cooking involves many subtasks.  Many household objects have mechanical constraints: “articulated”.  Here we’re looking at […]

My observations from the 1st full day of sessions at the AAAI-15 artificial intelligence conference in Austin, Texas. Hot Talk: General Game Playing This talk involved taking a look at the utility of using game playing as an outlet for proving out AI.  Gave contrast between typical approaches that presume too much, but more realistically have […]

My observations from the AAAI-15 Open House, 1/26/2015 in Austin, Texas. “Leveraging Multi-modalities for Egocentric Activity Recognition” Using Google glass and similar tech, combined various techniques to improve accuracy of activity recognition; e.g. whether you are brushing your teeth or doing laundry. “Cogsketch: Sketch Understanding for Cognitive Science and Education” This was a pretty interesting […]