A new generation of artificial intelligence(NGAI),currently based on big data and machine learning,follows a path of connectionism.Although this path achieves huge success in data-intensive applications under closed e...A new generation of artificial intelligence(NGAI),currently based on big data and machine learning,follows a path of connectionism.Although this path achieves huge success in data-intensive applications under closed environments,there are some bottleneck problems,including a lack of explainability,the difficulty of ethical alignment,the weakness ofcognitive reasoning,etc.To address these problems inevitably involves thedepiction of information from an open,dynamic and real environment and the modeling of human reasoning and explanation mechanisms.Formal argumentation is a general formalism for modeling various types of knowledge representation and reasoning in a context of disagreement,and is flexible enough to incorporate other types of knowledge for decisionmaking,such as preferences,weights,and probabilities.Meanwhile,there are various approaches for efficient computation of argumentation semantics by exploiting the locality and modularity of argumentation,and for providing explanations based on arguments and dialogues.The organic combination of formal argumentation with existing big data and machine learning techniques can be expected to break through some existing technical bottlenecks and facilitate the sustainable development of NGAI.展开更多
基金a phased result of “Logics for New Generation Artificial Intelligence,” a major project under the auspices of the National Social Science Fund of China (No. 20&ZD047)
文摘A new generation of artificial intelligence(NGAI),currently based on big data and machine learning,follows a path of connectionism.Although this path achieves huge success in data-intensive applications under closed environments,there are some bottleneck problems,including a lack of explainability,the difficulty of ethical alignment,the weakness ofcognitive reasoning,etc.To address these problems inevitably involves thedepiction of information from an open,dynamic and real environment and the modeling of human reasoning and explanation mechanisms.Formal argumentation is a general formalism for modeling various types of knowledge representation and reasoning in a context of disagreement,and is flexible enough to incorporate other types of knowledge for decisionmaking,such as preferences,weights,and probabilities.Meanwhile,there are various approaches for efficient computation of argumentation semantics by exploiting the locality and modularity of argumentation,and for providing explanations based on arguments and dialogues.The organic combination of formal argumentation with existing big data and machine learning techniques can be expected to break through some existing technical bottlenecks and facilitate the sustainable development of NGAI.