Track: IPTComm Keynote |
| The Third Wave of AI and Telecom |
| DARPA defines three waves of AI. The first wave is based on handcrafted knowledge. The implementation is symbolic AI which lends itself to basic reasoning. This includes expert systems and some may argue decision trees. The second wave of AI is based on statistical learning and its strengths lie in the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. The challenge with the second wave is transparency and brittleness. Second wave AI agents are mostly black boxes. Users of a second wave AI agent may question how the AI drew its conclusions. After all, correlation does not imply causation. While the second wave of AI has shown itself to be very powerful, there is much that can be improved. The third wave of AI marries the reasoning abilities and ambitions of the first wave with the learning capabilities of the second wave to produce a solution that is able to generalize beyond the training dataset and can explain itself thus making it more trustworthy and robust. This talk will explore the third wave of AI through a Causal Lens and how Telecom can benefit. |
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