IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine - August 2022 - 3

President's
Message
Jim Keller
University of Missouri, USA
CIS Society Officers
President - Jim Keller, University of Missouri, USA
Past President - Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier,
Sorbonne Université, FRANCE
Vice President-Conferences - Marley M. B. R. Vellasco,
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro,
BRAZIL
AI by Any Other Name
H
i all,
To borrow from The Bard, what's in a name? The world is awash with the
hype, the reality, the potential, and the concerns of Artificial Intelligence. But
what constitutes AI? That depends on who, and when, you ask. When I was a kid (academically
speaking), tasked with teaching a course on AI, I " knew " what it was: systems
with propositions consisting of discrete symbols,
manipulated through first order predicate
calculus, sometimes with a helping of probability
on the side. There were languages and
hardware developed to assist in that enterprise.
So, when the IEEE Neural Networks Council/Society
changed its name to the IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society, it made
perfect sense to me that CI was different from
AI since the underlying models were rooted
in numeric and functional representations,
producing a nice crisp partition of techniques.
But was that ever the case? Not long ago, I
found a copy of the 1955 proposal by John
McCarthy with Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel
Rochester and Claude E. Shannon for the
now famous Dartmouth conference in the Summer of 1956 and in which they
coined the term " Artificial Intelligence " [1]. They defined AI as " the science and engineering
of making intelligent machines. " McCarthy et al conjectured " that every
aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely
described that a machine can be made to simulate it. " But, there in the proposal, was
the inclusion of the fledgling " neuron networks, " a pillar of computational intelligence.
So, the partition of methodologies and techniques into AI and CI was never crisp, and
certainly with respect to neural networks was not even a fuzzy partition where membership
is shared between the groupings-artificial neural networks is recognized as a
full component of both AI and CI. Hence, (some of you at least knew this was coming),
the partition in my mind is possibilistic, where any given approach can have varying
degrees of typicality (membership) in both worlds. For example, is fuzzy logic restricted
only to CI? Well, some of us argue that it represents one of the ways to address the
growing field of XAI (eXplainable AI). Members of CIS went through an exercise a
few years ago to try to determine the boundaries between AI and CI. We discovered
that there was no consensus. Some held my early 1980s-fueled thought that AI and CI
were disjoint, some that CI was a subset of AI (or vice versa), and many postulating
varying degrees of overlap. I'm arguing here that we shouldn't get too hung up
with names. We are the CIS, but we are also the society of AI, though many of our
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCI.2022.3180650
Date of current version: 19 July 2022
Vice President-Education - Pau-Choo ( Julia) Chung,
National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN
Vice President-Finances - Pablo A. Estévez,
University of Chile, CHILE
Vice President-Industrial and Governmental
Activities - Piero P. Bonissone, Piero P. Bonissone
Analytics, USA
Vice President-Members Activities - Sanaz Mostaghim,
Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg,
GERMANY
Vice President-Publications - Kay Chen Tan,
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HONG KONG
Vice President-Technical Activities - Luis Magdalena,
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, SPAIN
Publication Editors
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
and Learning Systems
Yongduan Song, Chongqing University, CHINA
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
Jonathan Garibaldi, University of Nottingham, UK
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN,
MEXICO
IEEE Transactions on Games
Georgios N. Yannakakis, University of Malta, MALTA
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and
Developmental Systems
Huajin Tang, Zhejiang University, CHINA
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in
Computational Intelligence
Yew Soon Ong, Nanyang Technological University,
SINGAPORE
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
Hussein Abbass, University of New South Wales,
AUSTRALIA
Administrative Committee
Term ending in 2022:
Cesare Alippi, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY
James C. Bezdek, USA
Gary Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc., USA
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK
Alice E. Smith, Auburn University, USA
Term ending in 2023:
Oscar Cordón, University of Granada, SPAIN
Guilherme DeSouza, University of Missouri, USA
Pauline Haddow, Norwegian University of Science
and Technology, NORWAY
Haibo He, University of Rhode Island, USA
Hisao Ishibuchi, Southern University of Science and
Technology, CHINA
Term ending in 2024:
Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul, Chiang Mai
University, THAILAND
Jonathan Garibaldi, University of Nottingham, UK
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, POLAND
Derong Liu, Guangdong University of Technology,
CHINA
Ana Madureira, Polytechnic of Porto, PORTUGAL
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCI.2022.3181716
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