Artificial Intelligence Stack Exchange
Artificial Intelligence Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [research]

For questions related to in-depth study or academic research. Do NOT use this tag when you are trying to find something out.

132 questions
39
votes
3 answers

Why is Lisp such a good language for AI?

I've heard before from computer scientists and from researchers in the area of AI that that Lisp is a good language for research and development in artificial intelligence. Does this still apply, with the proliferation of neural networks and deep…
Alecto Irene Perez
  • 599
  • 1
  • 6
  • 10
24
votes
3 answers

Why do most deep learning papers not include an implementation?

I'm a novice researcher, and as I started to read papers in the area of deep learning I noticed that the implementation is normally not added and is needed to be searched elsewhere, and my question is how come that's the case? The paper's authors…
Gilad Deutsch
  • 629
  • 5
  • 12
19
votes
3 answers

What are the mathematical prerequisites for an AI researcher?

What are the mathematical prerequisites for understanding the core part of various algorithms involved in artificial intelligence and developing one's own algorithms? Please, refer to some specific books.
Surya Bhusal
  • 371
  • 2
  • 12
16
votes
1 answer

How to stay a up-to-date researcher in ML/RL community?

As a student who wants to work on machine learning, I would like to know how it is possible to start my studies and how to follow it to stay up-to-date. For example, I am willing to work on RL and MAB problems, but there are huge literatures on…
Amin
  • 471
  • 2
  • 11
14
votes
2 answers

How can people contribute to AGI research?

Is there a way for people outside of the core research community of AGI to contribute to the cause? There are a lot of people interested in supporting the field, but there is no clear way to do that. Is there something like BOINC for AGI researches,…
Alex
  • 337
  • 2
  • 11
14
votes
3 answers

What are some implications of Gödel's theorems on AI research?

Note: My experience with Gödel's theorem is quite limited: I have read Gödel Escher Bach; skimmed the 1st half of Introduction to Godel's Theorem (by Peter Smith); and some random stuff here and there on the internet. That is, I only have a vague…
k.c. sayz 'k.c sayz'
  • 2,061
  • 10
  • 26
14
votes
1 answer

What are the state-of-the-art results on the generalization ability of deep learning methods?

I've read a few classic papers on different architectures of deep CNNs used to solve varied image-related problems. I'm aware there's some paradox in how deep networks generalize well despite seemingly overfitting training data. A lot of people in…
Shirish Kulhari
  • 383
  • 1
  • 10
14
votes
3 answers

What sort of mathematical problems are there in AI that people are working on?

I recently got a 18-month postdoc position in a math department. It's a position with relative light teaching duty and a lot of freedom about what type of research that I want to do. Previously I was mostly doing some research in probability and…
faceclean
  • 261
  • 2
  • 8
13
votes
4 answers

How close are we to creating Ex Machina?

Are there any research teams that attempted to create or have already created an AI robot that can be as close to intelligent as these found in Ex Machina or I, Robot movies? I'm not talking about full awareness, but an artificial being that can…
kenorb
  • 10,423
  • 3
  • 43
  • 91
12
votes
2 answers

How much of Deep Mind's work is actually reproducible?

DeepMind has published a lot of works on deep learning in the last years, most of them are state-of-the-art on their respective tasks. But how much of this work has actually been reproduced by the AI community? For instance, the Neural Turing…
rcpinto
  • 2,089
  • 1
  • 16
  • 31
11
votes
3 answers

What are the mathematical prerequisites to be able to study artificial general intelligence?

What are the mathematical prerequisites to be able to study artificial general intelligence (AGI) or strong AI?
Mark ellon
  • 489
  • 1
  • 5
  • 6
11
votes
1 answer

When did Artificial Intelligence research first start?

When did research into Artificial Intelligence first begin? Was it called Artificial Intelligence then or was there another name?
WilliamKF
  • 2,493
  • 1
  • 24
  • 31
11
votes
1 answer

Strategic planning and multi dimensional knapsack problem

I'm trying to find a planning approach to solve a problem that attempts to model learning of new material. We assume that we only have one resource such as Wikipedia, which contains a list of articles represented as a vector of knowledge it contains…
Artem
  • 211
  • 1
  • 3
11
votes
3 answers

Why spend so much time and money to build AIs to play games?

I was reading about John McCarthy and his orthodox vision of Artificial Intelligence. To me, it seems like he was not very much in favour of resources (like time and money) being used to make AIs play games like Chess. Instead, he wanted more to…
Suraj Shah
  • 155
  • 11
10
votes
3 answers

How can AI researchers avoid "overfitting" to commonly-used benchmarks as a community?

In fields such as Machine Learning, we typically (somewhat informally) say that we are overfitting if improve our performance on a training set at the cost of reduced performance on a test set / the true population from which data is sampled. More…
Dennis Soemers
  • 9,894
  • 2
  • 25
  • 66
1
2 3
…
8 9