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…