Presentation for the AI & ML for People symposium at University of Helsinki, 2nd of November 2015.

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2 Nov 2015
Timo Honkela
AI & ML
IN THE SERVICE OF THE GOOD
timo.honkela@helsinki.fi

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Anticipation,
prediction,
time series
analysis
Some human skills being simulated
Pattern
recognition,
machine
vision,
speech
processing
Natural
language
understanding
and
generation
Symbolic,
probabilistic
and
intuitive
reasoning
Problem
solving
and
creativity
Emotional
presence
and
social
activity

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Why a new situation?
● Data, data, bid data – data-driven approaches that
enable going even far beyond the understanding
of a single person or even of a traditional human
research community
● Machine-learning-based artificial intelligent
systems have become core modules in many
services provided by companies like Google, IBM,
Facebook, Amazon, etc.
● The majority of the original ideas and innovations
stem from university research, though (whether
we consider IBM Watson, Google Translate, etc.)

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AI paradigms dichotomized
● Theory-driven versus
data-driven
● Deductive versus
inductive
● Logical reasoning versus
statistical/
probabilistic/neural
reasoning
● Modeling explicit rational
thinking versus intuitive
and implicit thinking and
problem solving
● Symbolic
representation
versus pattern/vector
representations
● Ontologies versus
word and document
vector spaces

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Pattern recognition
Kurimo et al.
Speech recognition
http://www.cis.hut.fi/cis/projects/speech/

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Pattern classification
Vuori & Laaksonen 2002
Recognition of handwritten characters

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Pattern recognition
Koskela, Sjöberg & Laaksonen 2007
Features clustering

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Pattern Generation
http://googleresearch.blogspot.fi/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html

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Building and using vast corpora
http://www.csc.fi/kielipankki/https://korp.csc.fi K. Lindén et al.

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Classical example: Learning meaning from context:
Maps of words in Grimm fairy tales
Honkela, Pulkki & Kohonen 1995
Predates
topic
modeling

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Multimodally Grounded Language Technology
A project funded by Academy of Finland
2011-2014
Klaus Förfer's thesis:
https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi
/handle/123456789/17857
http://cogsys.blogspot.fi/2015/10/
klaus-forger-from-motion-capture-to.html

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Honkela, Korhonen, Lagus & Saarinen:
Five-dimensional sentiment analysis of
corpora, documents and words,
Proceedings of WSOM 2014
Sentiment analysis

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Machine translation
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W15/W15-18.pdf#page=219
Tiedemann 2015
Aligning linguistics expressions

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Timo Honkela
AI & ML
IN THE SERVICE OF THE GOOD
IN THE SERVICE OF THE GOOD
IN THE SERVICE OF THE GOOD
2 Nov 2015

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Life saving systems

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Robotic cars could save one million
lives each year? (*)
“Tesla CEO Elon Musk referred to each Model S owners as
an “expert trainer” – meaning that each driver will train the
autonomous features of the system to feed the collective
network intelligence of the fleet by simply driving the electric
vehicle on Autopilot.”
(*) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate
http://electrek.co/2015/10/30/the-autopilot-is-learning-fast-model-s-owners-are-already-reporting-that-teslas-autopilot-is-self-improving/

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An example:
Resolving Transferin
Cancer Classification
PR Adhikari & J Hollmén
Discovery Science, 1-8
Jaakko Hollmén's talk
New approaches to
diagnosis and treatment

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Towards Peace
and Prosperity

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Jörg Tiedemann's talk
Building bridges over
language boundaries

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Understanding
subjectivity and contextuality
of human knowledge
Grounded Intersubjecity
Concept Analysis
Towards Within-Language TranslationTranslation

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Understanding historical developments
through the analysis of
large historical corpora
difi.kansalliskirjasto.fi
OCR problems?
An AI & ML
challenge!

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Understanding people and
the society through the analysis
of large social media corpora
such as Suomi24
Krista Lagus' talk

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Increased understanding
of complex
socio-economical systems
through crowdsourcing,
data analysis
and simulation

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Information
Society for All

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Liisa Tiittula &
Mikko Kurimo' talk
Jorma Laaksonen's talk

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Conclusions

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● Many positive developments are
taking place and will be possible
● Negative effects and scenarios have to be taken
into account, too
● Interdisciplinary theoretical and practical work on
philosophical questions, ethical concerns, societal
impacts (privacy, work), economics (fairness),
complex themes related to humanities, etc. is
necessary
● In general, I am optimistic that the world can be
made to be a better place by appropriate and wise
use of artificial intelligence and machine learning

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P.S.
Recently professor Bengt Holmström
reminded that at MIT studies in
humanities and social sciences
are obligatory for all students
The “two cultures” to work together
for the best for all

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Thank you
for your attention!

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Discussion forum:
https://goo.gl/ixgW8c