Many of the research in AI is devoted to create systems that perform tasks or functions for which we think humans need intelligence. Famous are things like playing chess or go, but classification and decision making are also among the popular ones. However, most of these endeavours are geared towards solving a problem and/or optimizing a solution individually. In real life intelligent behaviour is determined by our relationships and interactions with other people. The consequences of taking this serious for AI research are twofold. If we...
This is the story of my assorted attempts to do some good with machine learning. Through its telling, I’ll highlight several models of organizing social good efforts, describe half a dozen social good problems that would benefit from our community's attention, and present both resources and challenges for those looking to do some good with ML.