The world wide web touches a profound elementary human need, the need of receiving, emitting, and displaying information. This came unexpected. Technologists often struggle to realize their dreams and do not pose questions about the possible societal impact of their technology that is obtained once the technology is working. As such, even the inventors of the world wide web do not know why it has such a …
Time has passed since the last news blog, but events on preference handling continued going on. In 2017, the working group on advances in preference handling has met at the Fifth International Conference On Algorithmic Decision Theory, which has been organized by Jörg Rothe and Raymond Bisdorff in Luxembourg on October 25-27. You can find a short summary of this conference in our events blog.
The chatbot shouldn't respond this! Words have a meaning and thus an effect. They may solve problems or create problems. They may be beneficial or not. If a dialogue system is not able to evaluate the consequences of words it may cause damage. This is the lesson drawn from chatbots that "naively" replicated phrases from ill-intentioned users. Read more
The last fifty years have seen a major change in the role and purpose of computing. Early computer systems were dedicated to administrative and logistic tasks and required significant efforts from all stakeholders to build, deploy, and use those systems. Those early systems produced results without explaining whether and how those results addressed the problem posed to the machine. Read more
While the Dagstuhl Seminar on Preference Learning is ongoing, it is time to give an outlook on forthcoming events that are of interest for preference handling and to present an interesting initiative for research collaboration.
The Eighth Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling M-PREF 2014 will be held in July 27-28, 2014 in Quebec City, Canada … Read more
