What are AI Researchers working on?
I preparing a talk to be given in my department on next friday about the shift on the research agenda in what's usually called classical AI. I wanted to have a good way to show what the community is doing nowadays. What's more trendy than a cloud of keywords? Well, maybe an animation of the words changing in size over the years, as I saw recently in a TED talk. Anyway...
I took the full abstract of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and feeded into Wordle, a wonderful tool for doing such clouds. I rename some plurals into singulars for clarifying the point. For example algorithms, models, solutions, programs, and some others.
This is the result. Isn't it just wonderful?
We do algorithms, mostly. And we work, nowadays, in well defined problems. The model is very important it make us talk each other in the same language, focus the research, and allow other researchers to make sense of whatver we are getting.
This talk is based on a recent talk of my advisor, Hector Geffner, titled AI at 50: From Programs to Solvers. Models and Techniques for General Intelligence, and was the base for a talk Blai Bonet and myself did in a summit on Computer Science organized by undergrade students in Caracas some weeks ago.
