short lecture at Rangsit university, 2 March 2019
There will be three parts in this short lecture. The first part is
about the present of AI. The second part is the implication of AI
and the society. The last part is the future of computing. The
present AI can be considered as two approaches: symbolic AI and the
connectionist. Symbolic AI regards AI system as an intelligent agent
where the agent makes decision based on logic and knowledge. The
other side of the coin is where it is difficult to apply logic. That
is where Connectionist is popular. Connectionist believes that all
"intelligence" can be captured in the form of large number of connection
of computation nodes. The emphasize is on its topology or the
connection between these nodes.
A lot of IT services now employ AI because it can improve system
efficiency and provides opportunity for new and innovative services.
One of the most popular area is the use of Machine learning. A system with
machine learning has very high accuracy and in many tasks it performs
better than human. However, it is not easy to explain why AI arrives at a
certain decision. As more and more services depend on AI, people
need to trust it. AI needs to be transparent and explainable.
AI in the future will require even more computation power than today
system. Quantum computers promise exponential increase in computing
power. This short lecture will end with the report on the progress
on the development of quantum computers and its implication on AI of the
future.
Prabhas Chongstitvatana is a professor in the department of computer
engineering, Chulalongkorn University. He earned B.Eng. in Electrical
Engineering from Kasetsart University, Thailand in 1980 and Ph.D. from the
department of artificial intelligence, Edinburgh University, U.K. in 1992.
His research involves robotics, evolutionary computation, computer
architecture, bioinformatics. He is a lifetime member of Thailand
Engineering Institute, senior member of Thai Academy of Science and
Technology, senior adviser of Thai Robotics Society, founding member of
Thai Embedded System Association and IEEE Robotics and Automation
Society. He was the president of ECTI Association of Thailand
2012-2013. He has been awarded "National Distinguished Researcher"
by National Research Council of Thailand in 2009. His current
interest is in building Quantum computer.