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Changing the Nature of AI Research

By Subbarao Kambhampati
Communications of the ACM, September 2022, Vol. 65 No. 9, Pages 8-9
10.1145/3546954
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Arizona State University Professor Subbarao Kambhampati

https://bit.ly/3Rcf5NW June 8, 2022

In many ways, we are living in quite a wondrous time for artificial intelligence (AI), with every week bringing some awe-inspiring feat in yet another tacit knowledge (https://bit.ly/3qYrAOY) task that we were sure would be out of reach of computers for quite some time to come. Of particular recent interest are the large learned systems based on transformer architectures that are trained with billions of parameters over massive Web-scale multimodal corpora. Prominent examples include large language models (https://bit.ly/3iGdekA) like GPT3 and PALM that respond to free-form text prompts, and language/image models like DALL-E and Imagen that can map text prompts to photorealistic images (and even those with claims to general behaviors, such as GATO).

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