Ai MagazinePub Date : 2024-02-22DOI: 10.1002/aaai.12152
Vikram S. Adve, Jessica M. Wedow, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, Girish Chowdhary, Angela Green-Miller, Christina Tucker
{"title":"AIFARMS: Artificial intelligence for future agricultural resilience, management, and sustainability","authors":"Vikram S. Adve, Jessica M. Wedow, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, Girish Chowdhary, Angela Green-Miller, Christina Tucker","doi":"10.1002/aaai.12152","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aaai.12152","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The AIFARMS Artificial Intelligence for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management, and Sustainability national AI institute brings together over 40 world-class AI and agriculture researchers, with the common mission to develop foundational advances in AI and use them to ensure that future agriculture is environmentally friendly, sustainable, affordable, and accessible to diverse farming communities. Since its establishment in 2020, AIFARMS has advanced the state of the art in autonomous farming, cover crop planting, machine learning for improved outcomes from remote sensing, dynamic estimation of yield loss from weeds, and livestock management. The institute has prioritized the creation and utilization of high-quality, openly available data sets for advancing foundational AI and tackling agricultural challenges. AIFARMS leverages a close partnership between UIUC and Tuskegee University to build programming for a skilled and diverse next-generation workforce in digital agriculture. We are expanding the reach of AIFARMS outside of the current partners to collaborate with national AI institutions and international partners.</p>","PeriodicalId":7854,"journal":{"name":"Ai Magazine","volume":"45 1","pages":"83-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aaai.12152","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139957565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ai MagazinePub Date : 2024-02-21DOI: 10.1002/aaai.12158
Sidney K. D'Mello, Quentin Biddy, Thomas Breideband, Jeffrey Bush, Michael Chang, Arturo Cortez, Jeffrey Flanigan, Peter W. Foltz, Jamie C. Gorman, Leanne Hirshfield, Mon-Lin Monica Ko, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Rachel Lieber, James Martin, Martha Palmer, William R. Penuel, Thomas Philip, Sadhana Puntambekar, James Pustejovsky, Jason G. Reitman, Tamara Sumner, Michael Tissenbaum, Lyn Walker, Jacob Whitehill
{"title":"From learning optimization to learner flourishing: Reimagining AI in Education at the Institute for Student-AI Teaming (iSAT)","authors":"Sidney K. D'Mello, Quentin Biddy, Thomas Breideband, Jeffrey Bush, Michael Chang, Arturo Cortez, Jeffrey Flanigan, Peter W. Foltz, Jamie C. Gorman, Leanne Hirshfield, Mon-Lin Monica Ko, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Rachel Lieber, James Martin, Martha Palmer, William R. Penuel, Thomas Philip, Sadhana Puntambekar, James Pustejovsky, Jason G. Reitman, Tamara Sumner, Michael Tissenbaum, Lyn Walker, Jacob Whitehill","doi":"10.1002/aaai.12158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aaai.12158","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Institute for Student-AI Teaming (iSAT) addresses the foundational question: <i>how to promote deep conceptual learning via rich socio-collaborative learning experiences for all students</i>?—a question that is ripe for AI-based facilitation and has the potential to transform classrooms. We advance research in speech, computer vision, human-agent teaming, computer-supported collaborative learning, expansive co-design, and the science of broadening participation to design and study next generation AI technologies (called AI Partners) embedded in student collaborative learning teams in coordination with teachers. Our institute ascribes to theoretical perspectives that aim to create a normative environment of widespread engagement through responsible design of technology, curriculum, and pedagogy in partnership with K–12 educators, racially diverse students, parents, and other community members.</p>","PeriodicalId":7854,"journal":{"name":"Ai Magazine","volume":"45 1","pages":"61-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aaai.12158","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140164369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ai MagazinePub Date : 2024-02-21DOI: 10.1002/aaai.12159
J. Nathan Kutz, Steven L. Brunton, Krithika Manohar, Hod Lipson, Na Li
{"title":"AI Institute in Dynamic Systems: Developing machine learning and AI tools for scientific discovery, engineering design, and data-driven control","authors":"J. Nathan Kutz, Steven L. Brunton, Krithika Manohar, Hod Lipson, Na Li","doi":"10.1002/aaai.12159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aaai.12159","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The mission of the AI Institute in Dynamic Systems is to develop the next generation of advanced machine learning (ML) and AI tools for controlling complex physical systems by discovering physically interpretable and physics-constrained data-driven models through optimal sensor selection and placement. The research effort is anchored by a common task framework (CTF) that evaluates the performance of ML algorithms, architectures, and optimization schemes for the diverse tasks required in engineering applications. The aim is to push beyond the boundaries of modern techniques by closing the loop between data collection, control, and modeling, creating a unique and cross-disciplinary architecture for learning physically interpretable and physics constrained models of complex dynamic systems from time series data. The CTF further supports sustainable and open-source challenge datasets, which are foundational for developing interpretable, ethical, and inclusive tools to solve problems fundamental to human safety, society, and the environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":7854,"journal":{"name":"Ai Magazine","volume":"45 1","pages":"48-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aaai.12159","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140164370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ai MagazinePub Date : 2024-02-20DOI: 10.1002/aaai.12165
Andrew B. Kahng, Arya Mazumdar, Jodi Reeves, Yusu Wang
{"title":"The TILOS AI Institute: Integrating optimization and AI for chip design, networks, and robotics","authors":"Andrew B. Kahng, Arya Mazumdar, Jodi Reeves, Yusu Wang","doi":"10.1002/aaai.12165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aaai.12165","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Optimization is a universal quest, reflecting the basic human need to <i>do better</i>. Improved optimizations of energy-efficiency, safety, robustness, and other criteria in engineered systems would bring incalculable societal benefits. But, fundamental challenges of scale and complexity keep many such real-world optimization needs beyond reach. This article describes The Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale (TILOS), an NSF AI Research Institute for Advances in Optimization that aims to overcome these challenges in three high-stakes use domains: chip design, communication networks, and contextual robotics. TILOS integrates foundational research, translation, education, and broader impacts toward a new nexus of optimization, AI, and data-driven learning. We summarize central challenges, early progress, and futures for the institute.</p>","PeriodicalId":7854,"journal":{"name":"Ai Magazine","volume":"45 1","pages":"54-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aaai.12165","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140164447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ai MagazinePub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1002/aaai.12157
Ashok Goel, Chris Dede, Myk Garn, Chaohua Ou
{"title":"AI-ALOE: AI for reskilling, upskilling, and workforce development","authors":"Ashok Goel, Chris Dede, Myk Garn, Chaohua Ou","doi":"10.1002/aaai.12157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aaai.12157","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education (AI-ALOE) develops AI learning and teaching assistants to enhance the proficiency of adult reskilling and upskilling, and thereby transform workforce development. The AI assistants both address known problems in online education for reskilling/upskilling and help personalize adult learning for workforce development. AI-ALOE develops new AI models and techniques for self-explanation, machine teaching, and mutual theory of mind to make the AI assistants usable, learnable, teachable, and scalable. AI-ALOE is also developing a data architecture for deploying and evaluating the AI assistants, collecting and analyzing data, and personalizing learning at scale.</p>","PeriodicalId":7854,"journal":{"name":"Ai Magazine","volume":"45 1","pages":"77-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aaai.12157","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140164371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ai MagazinePub Date : 2024-02-17DOI: 10.1002/aaai.12154
Martin D. Burke, Scott E. Denmark, Ying Diao, Jiawei Han, Rachel Switzky, Huimin Zhao
{"title":"Molecule Maker Lab Institute: Accelerating, advancing, and democratizing molecular innovation","authors":"Martin D. Burke, Scott E. Denmark, Ying Diao, Jiawei Han, Rachel Switzky, Huimin Zhao","doi":"10.1002/aaai.12154","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aaai.12154","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many of the greatest challenges facing society today likely have molecular solutions that await discovery. However, the process of identifying and manufacturing such molecules has remained slow and highly specialist dependent. Interfacing the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and synthetic organic chemistry has the potential to powerfully address both limitations. The Molecule Maker Lab Institute (MMLI) brings together a team of chemists, engineers, and AI-experts from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Pennsylvania State University, and the Rochester Institute of Technology, with the goal of accelerating the discovery, synthesis and manufacture of complex organic molecules. Advanced AI and machine learning (ML) methods are deployed in four key thrusts: (1) AI-enabled synthesis planning, (2) AI-enabled catalyst development, (3) AI-enabled molecule manufacturing, and (4) AI-enabled molecule discovery. The MMLI's new AI-enabled synthesis platform integrates chemical and enzymatic catalysis with literature mining and ML to predict the best way to make new molecules with desirable biological and material properties. The MMLI is transforming chemical synthesis and generating use-inspired AI advances. Simultaneously, the MMLI is also acting as a training ground for the next generation of scientists with combined expertise in chemistry and AI. Outreach efforts aimed toward high school students and the public are being used to show how AI-enabled tools can help to make chemical synthesis accessible to nonexperts.</p>","PeriodicalId":7854,"journal":{"name":"Ai Magazine","volume":"45 1","pages":"117-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aaai.12154","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139960233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ai MagazinePub Date : 2024-02-17DOI: 10.1002/aaai.12155
Risto Miikkulainen
{"title":"Generative AI: An AI paradigm shift in the making?","authors":"Risto Miikkulainen","doi":"10.1002/aaai.12155","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aaai.12155","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It is sometimes difficult to evaluate progress in Generative AI, that is, image generation and large language models. This may be because they represent a paradigm shift in AI, and the traditional ways of developing, evaluating, understanding, and deploying AI systems no longer apply. Instead, we need to develop new such approaches, possibly by extending those currently in use in cognitive neuroscience and psychology. In this manner, a new AI paradigm can be created, providing a significant leap in AI research and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":7854,"journal":{"name":"Ai Magazine","volume":"45 1","pages":"165-167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aaai.12155","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139959897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ai MagazinePub Date : 2024-02-17DOI: 10.1002/aaai.12150
Jesse Thaler, Mike Williams, Marisa LaFleur
{"title":"Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI): Infusing physics intelligence into artificial intelligence","authors":"Jesse Thaler, Mike Williams, Marisa LaFleur","doi":"10.1002/aaai.12150","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aaai.12150","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI, pronounced /aI-faI/) is one of the inaugural NSF AI research institutes (https://iaifi.org). The IAIFI is enabling physics discoveries and advancing foundational AI through the development of novel AI approaches that incorporate first principles from fundamental physics. By combining state-of-the-art research with early career talent and a growing AI + physics community in the Boston area and beyond, the IAIFI is enabling researchers to develop AI technologies to tackle some of the most challenging problems in physics, and transfer these technologies to the broader AI community. Since trustworthy AI is as important for physics discovery as it is for other applications of AI in society, IAIFI researchers are applying physics principles to develop more robust AI tools and to illuminate existing AI technologies. To cultivate human intelligence, the IAIFI promotes training, education, and public engagement at the intersection of physics and AI. In these ways, the IAIFI is fusing deep learning with deep thinking to gain a deeper understanding of our universe and AI.</p>","PeriodicalId":7854,"journal":{"name":"Ai Magazine","volume":"45 1","pages":"111-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aaai.12150","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139959975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ai MagazinePub Date : 2024-02-16DOI: 10.1002/aaai.12156
Alan Fern, Margaret Burnett, Joseph Davidson, Janardhan Rao Doppa, Paola Pesantez-Cabrera, Ananth Kalyanaraman
{"title":"AgAID Institute—AI for agricultural labor and decision support","authors":"Alan Fern, Margaret Burnett, Joseph Davidson, Janardhan Rao Doppa, Paola Pesantez-Cabrera, Ananth Kalyanaraman","doi":"10.1002/aaai.12156","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aaai.12156","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The AgAID Institute is a National AI Research Institute focused on developing AI solutions for specialty crop agriculture. Specialty crops include a variety of fruits and vegetables, nut trees, grapes, berries, and different types of horticultural crops. In the United States, the specialty crop industry accounts for a multibillion dollar industry with over 300 crops grown just along the U.S. west coast. Specialty crop agriculture presents several unique challenges: they are labor-intensive, are easily impacted by weather extremities, and are grown mostly on irrigated lands and hence are dependent on water. The AgAID Institute aims to develop AI solutions to address these challenges, particularly in the face of workforce shortages, water scarcity, and extreme weather events. Addressing this host of challenges requires advancing foundational AI research, including spatio-temporal system modeling, robot sensing and control, multiscale site-specific decision support, and designing effective human–AI workflows. This article provides examples of current AgAID efforts and points to open directions to be explored.</p>","PeriodicalId":7854,"journal":{"name":"Ai Magazine","volume":"45 1","pages":"99-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aaai.12156","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139961195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ai MagazinePub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1002/aaai.12147
Yiran Chen, Suman Banerjee, Shaundra Daily, Jeffery Krolik, Hai (Helen) Li, Daniel Limbrick, Miroslav Pajic, Rajashi Runton, Lin Zhong
{"title":"Athena – The NSF AI Institute for Edge Computing","authors":"Yiran Chen, Suman Banerjee, Shaundra Daily, Jeffery Krolik, Hai (Helen) Li, Daniel Limbrick, Miroslav Pajic, Rajashi Runton, Lin Zhong","doi":"10.1002/aaai.12147","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aaai.12147","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The National Science Foundation (NSF) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute for Edge Computing Leveraging Next Generation Networks (Athena) seeks to foment a transformation in modern edge computing by advancing AI foundations, computing paradigms, networked computing systems, and edge services and applications from a completely new computing perspective. Led by Duke University, Athena leverages revolutionary developments in computer systems, machine learning, networked computing systems, cyber-physical systems, and sensing. Members of Athena form a multidisciplinary team from eight universities. Athena organizes its research activities under four interrelated thrusts supporting edge computing: Foundational AI, Computer Systems, Networked Computing Systems, and Services and Applications, which constitute an ambitious and comprehensive research agenda. The research tasks of Athena will focus on developing AI-driven next-generation technologies for edge computing and new algorithmic and practical foundations of AI and evaluating the research outcomes through a combination of analytical, experimental, and empirical instruments, especially with target use-inspired research. The researchers of Athena demonstrate a cohesive effort by synergistically integrating the research outcomes from the four thrusts into three pillars: Edge Computing AI Systems, Collaborative Extended Reality (XR), and Situational Awareness and Autonomy. Athena is committed to a robust and comprehensive suite of educational and workforce development endeavors alongside its domestic and international collaboration and knowledge transfer efforts with external stakeholders that include both industry and community partnerships.</p>","PeriodicalId":7854,"journal":{"name":"Ai Magazine","volume":"45 1","pages":"15-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aaai.12147","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139774790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}