Towards artificial intelligence: Advances, challenges, and risks

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  • Ramon López de Mántaras Artificial Intelligence Research Institute at the Spanish National Research Council (IIIA-CSIC https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7392-0014

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.9.11145

Keywords:

strong artificial intelligence, weak artificial intelligence, common-sense knowledge, deep learning

Abstract

This text contains some reflections on artificial intelligence (AI). First, we distinguish between strong and weak AI, as well as the concepts related to general and specific AI. Following this, we briefly describe the main current AI models and discuss the need to provide common-sense knowledge to machines in order to advance towards the goal of a general AI. Next, we talk about the current trends in AI based on the analysis of large amounts of data, which has recently allowed experts to make spectacular progress. Finally, we discuss other topics which, now and in the future, will continue to be key in AI, before closing with a brief reflection on the risks of AI.

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Author Biography

Ramon López de Mántaras, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute at the Spanish National Research Council (IIIA-CSIC

Research Professor and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute at the Spanish National Research Council (IIIA-CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain). He holds a PhD in Physics from the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He is also a numerary member of the Institute of Catalan Studies. He currently researches reasoning by analogy, machine learning techniques for humanoid robots, and artificial intelligence applied to music, and has published around 300 scientific papers in these fields. In 2017, he published the popular science book Inteligencia artificial within the «Qué sabemos de» collection (Los Libros de la Catarata).

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2019-03-06

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López de Mántaras, R. (2019). Towards artificial intelligence: Advances, challenges, and risks. Metode Science Studies Journal, (9), 119–125. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.9.11145
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Interlinked. Machines and humans facing the 10101 century

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