Connectionists: CFP: Can Artificial Neural Network be Intelligent?

[Akira Imada]

Call for Papers
for Special Session: "Can Artificial Neural Network be Intelligent?"
in The International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial
Intelligence (ICNNAI'2010)
1 - 4 June, 2010 in Brest, Belarus

(See also http://icnnai.bstu.by/special-session-2.html)


Submissions Due: April 14, 2010.


SCOPE
Once my friend, who worked in a world famous electric company as an
engineer, told me, "it's amateurish," when I admired a food in a Chinese
restaurant telling him, "It's really wonderful that they every time cook in
slightly a different way whenever I order the same one, and every time it's
delicious." He told me, "Real professional should cook exactly the same way
every time."

McClelland wrote "Even after more than a half a century of research on
machine intelligence, humans remain far better than our strongest computing
machines at a wide range of natural cognitive tasks."[1]

However, as far as its application to industry is concerned, the state of
the art of machine intelligence reaches quite an impressive level nowadays.
But what is human intelligence?

Assume, for example, we are in a foreign country where we are not so
conversant in its native language, and assume we ask, "Pardon?" to show we
have failed to understand what they were telling us. Then intelligent people
might try to change the expression with using easier words so that we
understand this time, while others, perhaps not so intelligent, would repeat
the same expression, probably with a little bigger voice.

This conference names "Artificial Intelligence and Neural Network,"
expecting an establishment of artificial intelligence by means of neural
network. In fact, we have had lots of successful reports proudly claiming a
design of intelligent machine. Then question arises. What is intelligence?
Some of what they call an intelligent machine perform the given task much
more efficiently, effectively, or precisely than human. However we human are
not usually very efficient, effective nor precise, but rather spontaneous,
flexible, or unpredictable.

We see what they call an intelligent humanoid robot or pet whose behavior
looks pretty intelligent. But what if they always behave exactly as before
whenever it comes across exactly the same situation as it learned the
behavior? However it might be very efficient,  we would loose an interest
sooner or later.

We organize this special session looking forward a hot discussion on this
topic. Both positive and negative article are welcomed. We also plan to
publish in a special issue in the journal "Advances in Artificial Neural
Systems" from the Hindawi Publishing Corporation.


[1] James L. McClelland (2009) <EM>"Is a Machine Realization of Truly
Human-Like Intelligence Achievable?"</EM> Published online from "Springer
Science + Business."


SUBMISSION
Submission should be by attaching to an e-mail directly to the session
organizer akira-i at brest-state-tech-univ.org by the submission due.

The submission paper should follow the conference proceeding format. See the
sample.pdf found in the authors' kit which can be downloaded by from the
Call for Paper http://icnnai.bstu.by/icnnai-2010.html

SCHEDULE
     - Submission due ... 14 April 2010
     - Notification to authors ... 21 April 2010
     - Camera ready due  ... 7 May 2010

SESSION ORGANIZER
Prof. Dr. Akira Imada (Brest State Technical University, Belarus)
akira-i at brest-state-tech-univ.org

Looking forward to seeing you in this fancy town of Brest in this wonder
land of Belarus.
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