A View of the Top Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence in 2015

摘要

Late last year, Richard Mallah, the Director of A.I. Projects at technology beneficence nonprofit Future of Life Institute, and the Director of Advanced Analytics at knowledge integration platform firm Cambridge Semantics, released his candidates for the important breakthroughs in artificial intelligence during 2015. He grouped the advances into five broad categories. '"The vast majority of work in the field these days actually builds on previous work done by other teams earlier the same year, in contrast to most other fields where references span decades. Creating a summary of a wide range of developments in this field will almost invariably lead to descriptions that sound heavily anthropomorphic, and this summary does indeed. It's important to remember that even though many of these capabilities sound very thought-like, they're usually not very similar to how human cognition works. The systems are all of course functional and mechanistic, and, though increasingly less so, each are still quite narrow in what they do. Be warned though: in reading this [summary], these functionalities may seem to go from fanciful to prosaic.