The Seasonal Curse of Artificial Intelligence
October 1, 2020, via Zoom webinar Forbes estimates that artificial intelligence (AI) will become a 150 trillion-dollar industry by 2025. This is an impressive feat for any technology, yet alone an eighty-year-old research field. In this talk I will discuss two challenges that threaten to hold AI back from reaching the next level. First, as AI is integrated into critical real-world applications like smart cars, healthcare, agriculture, and security & defense, how can we trust it? Specifically, I will discuss the emerging and important field of explainable AI (XAI). Second, are we overly optimistic about state-of-the-art AI? Current generation machine learning and pattern recognition algorithms have made impressive leaps in performance across application domains by exploiting correlations in Big Data. As we identify weaknesses and limitations in current AI, will we once again fall victim to the seasonal curse of AI? The speaker: Dr. Derek Anderson is an associate professor in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Missouri. Dr. Anderson directs the Mizzou information and data fusion laboratory (MINDFUL) and he is a co-leader of the MUIDSI data-driven agriculture and natural resources (DDAgNR) initiative. Professor Anderson’s research is information fusion in computational intelligence for signal/image processing, computer vision, and geospatial applications. Anderson has focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational intelligence, and pattern recognition for approximately twenty years. He has published over a 150 works (journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters), he was the program co-chair of FUZZ-IEEE 2019, he is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (an IEEE AI journal), vice chair of the IEEE CIS fuzzy systems technical committee (FSTC), and an Area Editor for the International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems. He received a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Missouri in 2010. He was previously the Robert D. Guyton Chair in electrical and computer engineering at Mississippi State University.
