The annual conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is the premier U.S. gathering for artificial intelligence (AI) theoreticians and practitioners. On the commercial side, AAAI is the only event with a comprehensive exhibition that includes most significant U.S. vendors of AI products and services. In 1986 some 5100 people attended AAAI-a very good showing consi...

New developments in AI and neuroscience are revitalizing the quest to understanding natural intelligence, offering insight about how to equip machines with human-like capabilities. This paper reviews some of the computational principles relevant for understanding natural intelligence and, ultimately, achieving strong AI. After reviewing basic principles, a variety of computational modeling appr...

The phenomenon of online social networking has evolved to include more than the teenage stereotype looking to expand his/her network of online friends. People of all ages and backgrounds have discovered that they can enrich their lives through the contacts they make on a social networking website. The social networks must progress to make the user's life easier with the aim of providing securit...

Although artificial intelligence (AI) is currently one of the most interesting areas in scientific research, the potential threats posed by emerging AI systems remain a source of persistent controversy. To address the issue of AI threat,this study proposes a “standard intelligence model” that unifies AI and human characteristics in terms of four aspects of knowledge, i.e., input, output, master...

Between January and May 2017, leadership of The IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems welcomed input from around the globe on their founding document – Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Wellbeing with Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems (AI/AS) (hereafter referred to as EAD or EADv1). Broken into mu...

Massively Parallel Artificial Intelligence is a new and growing area of AI research, enabled by the emergence of massively parallel machines. It is a new paradigm in AI research. A high degree of par­ allelism not only affects computing performance, but also triggers drastic change in the approach to­ ward building intelligent systems; memory-based reasoning and parallel marker-passing are exam...

Game playing and genetic algorithms (GAs) are two important topics in artificial intelligence (AI). In this work we employ network tournament to assist in teaching these concepts associated with AI. Three exercises that implement a game-playing program are designed to help students learn relevant topics in AI. The first exercise involves game theory, e.g. mini-max search and alpha-beta pruning....

We present Project Malmo – an AI experimentation platform built on top of the popular computer game Minecraft, and designed to support fundamental research in artificial intelligence. As the AI research community pushes for artificial general intelligence (AGI), experimentation platforms are needed that support the development of flexible agents that learn to solve diverse tasks in complex envi...

This article presents an overview of Ipseity, an open-source platform developed in C++ with the Qt framework. The current version of the platform includes a set of plugins implementing single-agent and multi-agent environments, hardcoded controllers based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, classical Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques like Q-Learning, Sarsa, Epsilon-Greedy combined ...

The Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education attracted over 400 pnrticipants from all over the world who gathered to present project reports, exchange views, discuss common problems, and establish contacts concerning AI and education This article presents a synopsis of the major presentations and an overview of the conference as a whole The Third International Con...