Seven pillars for the future of artificial intelligence

Abstract

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) research has showcased tremendous potential to positively impact humanity and society. Although AI frequently outperforms humans in tasks related to classification and pattern recognition, it continues to face challenges when dealing with complex tasks such as intuitive decision making, sense disambiguation, sarcasm detection, and narrative understanding as these require advanced kinds of reasoning, e.g., common-sense reasoning and causal reasoning, which have not been emulated satisfactorily yet. To address these shortcomings, we propose seven pillars that we believe represent the key hallmark features for the future of AI, namely, multidisciplinarity, task decomposition, parallel analogy, symbol grounding, similarity measure, intention awareness, and trustworthiness.