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AI MATTERS, VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3 4(3) 2018 AI Matters Annotated Table of Contents AI Education Matters: Teaching Search Algorithms Welcome to AI Matters 4(3) Nathan R. Sturtevant Amy McGovern, Editor Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3284751.3284757 Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3284751.3284752 Teaching search Welcome and summary AI Profiles: An Interview with Kristian 2018 ACM SIGAI Student Essay Con- Kersting test on Artificial Intelligence Tech- Marion Neumann nologies Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3284751.3284758 Nicholas Mattei Interview with Kristian Kersting Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3284751.3284753 SIGAI Student essay contest AI Policy Matters Larry Medsker ACM SIGAI Activity Report Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3284751.3284759 Sven Koenig, Sanmay Das, Rosemary Paradis, John Dickerson, Yolanda Gil, Updates on AI and automation Katherine Guo, Benjamin Kuipers, Hang Ma, Nicholas Mattei, Amy McGovern, The Partnership on AI Larry Medsker, Todd Neller, Plamen Jeffrey Heer Petrov, Michael Rovatsos & David G. Stork Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3284751.3284760 Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3284751.3284754 Partnership on AI to benefit people and society Annual report for ACM SIGAI Mechanism Design for Social Good Events Rediet Abebe & Kira Goldner Michael Rovatsos Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3284751.3284761 Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3284751.3284755 Designing for social good Upcoming AI events Links AI Education Matters: Teaching with SIGAI website: http://sigai.acm.org/ Deep Learning Frameworks in Intro- Newsletter: http://sigai.acm.org/aimatters/ ductory Machine Learning Courses Blog: http://sigai.acm.org/ai-matters/ Michael Guerzhoy Twitter: http://twitter.com/acm sigai/ Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3284751.3284756 Edition DOI: 10.1145/3284751 Teaching deep learning Join SIGAI 1 AI MATTERS, VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3 4(3) 2018 Students $11, others $25 For details, see http://sigai.acm.org/ Benefits: regular, student Also consider joining ACM. 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Details on Hot Topics the submission process are available at http://sigai.acm.org/aimatters. Humor AI Impact AI Matters Editorial Board AI News Amy McGovern, Editor-in-Chief, U. Oklahoma Opinion Sanmay Das, Washington Univ. in Saint Louis Alexei Efros, Univ. of CA Berkeley Paper Precis´ Susan L. Epstein, The City Univ. of NY Yolanda Gil, ISI/Univ. of Southern California Spotlight Doug Lange, U.S. Navy Kiri Wagstaff, JPL/Caltech Video or Image Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu, Univ. of WI Madison Details at http://sigai.acm.org/aimatters Contact us: [email protected] 2 AI MATTERS, VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3 4(3) 2018 Welcome to AI Matters 4(3) Amy McGovern, Editor (University of Oklahoma; [email protected]) DOI: 10.1145/3284751.3284752 Issue overview per on the Mechanism Design for Social Good agenda. Welcome to the third issue of the fourth vol- ume of the AI Matters Newsletter. In this is- sue, we have some great news: we are bring- ing back the AI student essay contest! Please Submit to AI Matters! see the first article for details on this fun con- Thanks for reading! Don’t forget to send test which is due January 10, 2019. In addi- your ideas and future submissions to AI tion to the prizes discussed in the article, the Matters! We’re accepting articles and an- winners will have their articles features in AI nouncements now for the next issue. De- Matters in the issue following their selection. tails on the submission process are avail- Our second big news item is an in-depth sum- able at http://sigai.acm.org/aimatters. mary report of what ACM SIGAI has been working on for the last year. This report is in-depth and shows the wide extent that ACM SIGAI has been reaching out, from starting a new conference, helping with a variety of ex- isting conferences, creating new awards, sup- porting members, adding new content to this newsletter, and increasing our social media presence. In our regular columns, don’t forget to check out upcoming AI related events, summarized Amy McGovern is chief well in Michael Rovatsos’ events column. We Editor of AI Matters. She got extra lucky this issue with two educational is a Professor of com- submissions! Michael Guerzhoy contributes puter science at the Uni- an article on using deep learning and tensor- versity of Oklahoma and flow in machine learning classes and Nathan an adjunct professor of Sturtevant discusses how to teach search al- meteorology. She directs gorithms to students in AI classes. the Interaction, Discovery, Our interview series is back! Marion Neumann Exploration and Adapta- has joined our contributing authors and will tion (IDEA) lab. Her re- be working on interviews as well as other se- search focuses on ma- ries. In this issue, Marion interviews Kristian chine learning and data mining with applica- Kersting, Professor in Computer Science and tions to high-impact weather. Deputy Director of the Centre for Cognitive Science at the Technical University of Darm- stadt, Germany. Larry Medsker’s policy column looks into the recent report from the WEF on the future of jobs with increasing automation as well as ve- hicle automation. Finally, we close with two paper contributions. The first is a discussion of the Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society. The second is a thoughtful pa- Copyright c 2018 by the author(s). 3 AI MATTERS, VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3 4(3) 2018 2018 ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest on Artificial Intelligence Technologies Nicholas Mattei (IBM Research; [email protected]) DOI: 10.1145/3284751.3284753 Abstract how? See, for example,“Turing?s Red Flag” in CACM (Link). Win one of several prizes including • What requirements, if any, should be im- $500USD or a chat with a leading AI Re- searcher. For complete details, includ- posed on AI systems and technology when ing submission requirements, formats, making decisions that directly affect hu- and judges please see: www.tinyurl.com/ mans? For example, should they be re- SIGAIEssay2018 quired to make transparent decisions? If so, how? For example, the IEEE’s discussion of Ethically Aligned Design (Link). 2018 Topic The ACM Special Interest Group on Artifi- Each of the above topic areas raises further cial Intelligence (ACM SIGAI) supports the de- questions, including velopment and responsible application of Ar- tificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. From • Who is responsible for the training and intelligent assistants to self-driving cars, an maintenance of AI systems? See, for ex- increasing number of AI technologies now ample, Google?s (Link), Microsoft?s (Link), (or soon will) affect our lives. Examples in- and IBM?s (Link) AI Principles. clude Google Duplex (Link) talking to humans, Drive.ai (Link) offering rides in US cities, • How do we educate ourselves and others chatbots advertising movies by impersonat- about these issues and possible solutions? ing people (Link), and AI systems making de- See, for example, new ways of teaching AI cisions about parole (Link) and foster care ethics (Link). (Link). We interact with AI systems, whether • How do we handle the fact that different cul- we know it or not, every day. tures see these problems differently? See, Such interactions raise important questions. for example, Joi Ito?s discussion in Wired ACM SIGAI is in a unique position to shape (Link). the conversation around these and related is- • Which steps can governments, industries, sues and is thus interested in obtaining input or organizations (including ACM SIGAI) take from students worldwide to help shape the de- to address these issues? See, for example, bate. We therefore invite all students to enter the goals and outlines of the Partnership on an essay in the 2018 ACM SIGAI Student Es- AI (Link). say Contest, to be published in the ACM SIGAI newsletter AI Matters, addressing one or both of the following topic areas (or any other ques- All sources must be cited. However, we are tion in this space that you feel is important) not interested in summaries of the opinions while providing supporting evidence: of others. Rather, we are interested in the informed opinions of the authors. Writing an • What requirements, if any, should be im- essay on this topic requires some background posed on AI systems and technology when knowledge. Possible starting points for acquir- interacting with humans who may or may not ing such background knowledge are: the re- know that they are interacting with a ma- vised ACM Code of Ethics (Link), especially chine? For example, should they be re- Section 3.7, and a discussion of why the re- quired to disclose their identities? If so, vision was necessary (Link), IEEE?s Ethically Aligned Design (Link), and the One Hundred Copyright c 2018 by the author(s).