The AAAI-21 Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

Description of the workshop

Increased specialization in the sub-fields of AI has led to extreme fragmentation of the field. This has inhibited research on more complete AI systems that will require the coordination of multiple cognitive faculties (language, vision and reasoning) coupled with an ability to act and effect changes in the real world. This workshop will bring together researchers from NLP, computer vision, reasoning and action/robotics to explore end-to-end HAI.

Topics

Among the questions that participants will discuss and seek to answer are:

· AI architectures: What should the representational and computational boundaries between modules look like? Can we characterize the best ways in which information shared between modules should be packaged?

· Information revision: How should such systems handle feedback loops and the revision of information between modules?

· Bounded rationality: How can processing resources best be managed between modules?

· Neuro-symbolic: How can machine learning be parceled out among components or can end-to-end learning result in systems that coordinate multi-faculty capabilities? Can HAI systems provide a testing ground for neuro-symbolic computing?

· AI Challenge problems: Are there particular challenge problems that would be most appropriate for the study of such systems that would encourage progress in this area?

Format of workshop

HAI will be a one-day workshop that will include presentations of accepted papers, a talk by an invited speaker and a panel discussion to discuss the above questions.

Attendance

Attendance is open to all.

Submission requirements

Full papers (maximum of 8 pages in length) that address the above questions or that report on efforts to combine multiple cognitive/action modules (together with lessons learned) may be submitted. Position papers (maximum of 4 pages in length) may also be submitted. Note that this workshop is not intended to explore AI systems that consist solely of multiple AI technologies (e.g., symbolic and neural nets): the technologies must be deployed in service of multiple coordinated functions (e.g., language plus vision).

· Submission deadline: November 9, 2020

· Notification date: November 30, 2020

Submit to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hai2021. Please follow the AAAI-21 formatting guidelines (https://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit21.zip).

Workshop URL: https://sites.google.com/view/aaai2021workshop/home