The Facets of Artificial Intelligence: A Framework to Track the Evolution of AI

The Facets of Artificial Intelligence: A Framework to Track the Evolution of AI

Fernando Martínez-Plumed, Bao Sheng Loe, Peter Flach, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Karina Vold, José Hernández-Orallo

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Evolution of the contours of AI. Pages 5180-5187. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/718

We present nine facets for the analysis of the past and future evolution of AI. Each facet has also a set of edges that can summarise different trends and contours in AI. With them, we first conduct a quantitative analysis using the information from two decades of AAAI/IJCAI conferences and around 50 years of documents from AI topics, an official database from the AAAI, illustrated by several plots. We then perform a qualitative analysis using the facets and edges, locating AI systems in the intelligence landscape and the discipline as a whole. This analytical framework provides a more structured and systematic way of looking at the shape and boundaries of AI.
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Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications