1. Michigan State University 1 Autonomous Machine Learning Panel IJCNN 2010, July 20 Juyang Weng Embodied Intelligence Laboratory Department of Computer Science Cognitive Science Program Neuroscience Program Michigan State University East Lansing MI 48824 USA http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weng/

2. Michigan State University 2 Intent-Directed Reasoning with Pixels Luciw & Weng IJCNN 2010

3. Michigan State University 3 Autonomous Machine Learning (AML): Misconceptions l Generate own supervision: a lot of work! l Semi-supervised, reinforcement learning l Select the most informative samples: a lot of work! l Border points, bottom-up attention (e.g., saliency) l Generate own loss function: Is a loss function good? l Evaluate own performance: Without teacher? l Human supervision? l Human internal (inside the brain) intervention: Bad l Human external (outside the brain) supervision: Good as it is essential for human intelligence, e.g., classroom teaching

4. Michigan State University 4 AML: Let Us Face Major AI Challenges l General-purpose vision: l Multiple objects, complex backgrounds l General-purpose audition: l Speaker independence, noisy environment, beyond speech (e.g, music) l General-purpose language understanding: l Acquisition of ontology, language acquisition, discourse l The bottleneck problem: Internal Representation! Emergent! l Symbolic, monolithic representation: Handcrafting a representation l Neural networks: One-shot recognition, cannot perform goal-directed reasoning, lack of autonomy of intents l The bottleneck problem seems to have a solution: A 5-chunk brain-mind model (Weng, IJCNN 2010, Tuesday AM) l The above 3 central problems of AI seem to be tractable by AML