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==7 Pillars for the Future of AI (abstract)==
LaCATODA 2024 Invited Talk
Erik Cambria
7 Pillars for the Future of AI
Abstract
In recent years, AI research has showcased tremendous potential to impact positively
humanity and society. Although AI frequently outperforms humans in tasks related to
classification and pattern recognition, it continues to face challenges when dealing
with complex tasks such as intuitive decision-making, sense disambiguation, sarcasm
detection, and narrative understanding, as these require advanced kinds of reasoning,
e.g., commonsense reasoning and causal reasoning, which have not been emulated
satisfactorily yet. The Seven Pillars for the future of AI address these shortcomings
and pave the way for more efficient, scalable, safe and trustworthy AI systems.
Invited Speaker’s Bio
Erik Cambria is a Professor at Nanyang Technological University, where he also holds
the appointment of Provost Chair in Computer Science and Engineering, and
Founder of several AI companies, such as SenticNet, offering B2B sentiment analysis
services, and finaXai, providing fully explainable financial insights. Prior to moving to
Singapore, he worked at Microsoft Research Asia (Beijing) and HP Labs India
(Bangalore), after earning his PhD through a joint program between the University of
Stirling (UK) and MIT Media Lab (USA). Today, his research focuses on
neurosymbolic AI for interpretable, trustworthy, and explainable affective computing
in domains like social media monitoring, financial forecasting, and AI for social good.
He is ranked in Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers List of World's Top 1%
Scientists, is recipient of many awards, e.g., IEEE Outstanding Early Career, was
listed among the AI's 10 to Watch, and was featured in Forbes as one of the 5 People
Building Our AI Future. He is an IEEE Fellow, Associate Editor of various top-tier AI
journals, e.g., Information Fusion and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing,
and is involved in several international conferences as keynote speaker, program chair
and committee member.
CEUR
ceur-ws.org
Workshop ISSN 1613-0073
Proceedings
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