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1 | <p>Besides being "one of the 7 meta questions every site should ask", it's just plain important. An "AI Stackexchange" site has been tried before, at least once, and possibly a few times. And in the past, it's been killed for lack of activity. :-(</p>
<p>So... how so we promote this site well enough to attract a critical mass of participants? And how do we get people participating? </p>
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"text": "<p>As Franck neatly put: First step would be to clearly define the scope of the site.</p>\n\n<p>Next, there are very active D... | 2016/08/02 | ERROR: type should be string, got [
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4 | <p>Are all questions asked on stats and data science SE also on topic here? Or is there some rule such as (on-topic in stats or data science SE implies off-topic here)?</p>
<p>Data science and the stats SE already have a huge overlap (>~80%), I am worried to have a third SE that also significantly overlaps with them.</p>
<hr>
<p>As a side note, many other SE have an AI tags, e.g.:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence">https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence</a></li>
<li><a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence">https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence</a> (for the most sci-fi questions)</li>
<li><a href="https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ai.artificial-intel">https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ai.artificial-intel</a></li>
<li><a href="https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence">https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence</a></li>
<li><a href="https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence">https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence">https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence</a></li>
<li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ai">https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ai</a></li>
</ul>
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"text": "<p>No, data science and the implementation of artificial intelligence are off-topic. <a href=\"https://area51.meta.stackexchange.c... | 2016/08/02 | ERROR: type should be string, got [
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5 | <p>I've seen several questions that use the <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'artificial-intelligence'" rel="tag">artificial-intelligence</a> tag, sometimes as the only tag on the question. That is not useful for categorizing questions, so please don't add this to your question. </p>
<p>For this reason, the site name is usually blacklisted as tag name. </p>
<ul>
<li>So the <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bug" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'bug'" rel="tag">bug</a> is: Why isn't <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'artificial-intelligence'" rel="tag">artificial-intelligence</a> blacklisted?</li>
<li>The <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feature-request" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'feature-request'" rel="tag">feature-request</a> is: Please blacklist <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'artificial-intelligence'" rel="tag">artificial-intelligence</a>.</li>
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"text": "<p>No, data science and the implementation of artificial intelligence are off-topic. <a href=\"https://area51.meta.stackexchange.c... | 2016/08/02 | ERROR: type should be string, got [
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11 | <p>I'm seeing a lot of answers from people along the lines of "AI is just bits and bytes and ultimately cannot be smarter than its creator because its creator would have to use their brain to make something smarter than themselves, which isn't possible."</p>
<p>It's kind of baffling to me to see these answers, especially in regards to the singularity, on a forum dedicated to AI. There is already image recognition that can recognize objects more accurately than humans, IBM's Watson can diagnose lung cancer at a rate much more accurately than human physicians, and Google's Alpha Go beat the Go world champion, even while experts were predicting that AI wouldn't succeed at doing this for another 10 years.</p>
<p>At the same time, I am completely certain that any of the individual programmers of Alpha Go would not have succeeded in defeating the Go champion of the world. I'm also fairly certain that the Watson programmers would not do better than Watson or a human physician at identifying lung cancer. These are already cases of the AI being more intelligent than its programmer, albeit in domain-specific cases.</p>
<p>Therefore, it seems wholly lazy and uncreative for people to provide such answers that AI cannot be more intelligent than a single creator and therefore human-level AI and beyond is not possible. I think it does not contribute to the discussion.</p>
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"text": "<p>If an answer is wrong, it should be downvoted, plain and simple. Clearly we want to discourage wrong information, and downvotes... | 2016/08/02 | ERROR: type should be string, got [
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18 | <p>The latter is the canonical way to refer to the field, and its unclear when, if ever, [deep-network] would be preferable. Its a small change, but it'd help avoid very odd sounding questions like <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/q/96/109">"What is Deep Network?"</a></p>
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"text": "<p>I would say yes. I don't know many people who use the term \"deep network\" like that. You may hear \"deep neural network\... | 2016/08/02 | ERROR: type should be string, got [
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22 | <p>During the private beta we have the opportunity to send Emails via stack exchange:<br>
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2c4CE.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2c4CE.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a><br>
And because stackexchange is already well-known on the net, it is more probable that our invitation will be read and clicked on. And I don't think there would be any academic mail server which rejects mail sent by the domain stackexchange.com.
As you know <a href="http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=1702" rel="nofollow noreferrer">there are a lot of artificial intelligence related journals</a>, I want to see if it is useful or allowed to use the emails of some of those young researchers who have published papers in this journals recently and introduce them this new site?<br>
Because my friends or the people that I have met directly will always notice the emails sent by me personally but a stranger may consider it a spam.</p>
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"text": "<p>Certainly, asking real AI researchers to join would be great!</p>\n\n<p>Paper authors include their e-mail addresses in their ... | 2016/08/02 | ERROR: type should be string, got [
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27 | <p>I asked a question that was meant to discuss artificial intelligence in general. I tagged it <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'artificial-intelligence'" rel="tag">artificial-intelligence</a>, and someone fairly pointed out that that's redundant. I changed it to <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/agi" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'agi'" rel="tag">agi</a>, because the question referred specifically to how <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/optimization" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'optimization'" rel="tag">optimization</a> applies to artificial intelligence, but I'm not sure that was right.</p>
<p>Should the <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/agi" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'agi'" rel="tag">agi</a> tag refer only to questions that reference Artificial General Intelligence specifically, or can it be used for questions that could be related to AGI in more indirect ways? </p>
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35 | <p>I was going to answer a question about reinforcement learning and wanted to show some formulas using the same notation I use on CrossValidated, for instance:</p>
<p>$r_{t+1}+\gamma \max_a Q(s_{t+1},a)$</p>
<p>But it is currently not supported, at least the way I tried it. Can we have support for LaTeX formatting here?</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/q/157">What artificial intelligence strategies are useful for summarization?</a></li>
</ul>
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"text": "<p>While it might be nice to have for some questions, most questions you would need LaTeX for should be off-topic here. This... | 2016/08/02 | ERROR: type should be string, got [
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38 | <p>We have a <a href="//chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/43371/artificial-intelligence">chatroom</a>. At the moment it doesn't really have a name. Other sites' chatroom names include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Super User's "Root Access"</li>
<li>PPCG's "The Nineteenth Byte"</li>
<li>Blender's "The Renderfarm"</li>
<li>Pets' "The Litterbox"</li>
<li>Travel's "You Are Here"</li>
<li>Aviation's "The Hangar"</li>
</ul>
<p>So, what should we call ours?</p>
<p>While we're at it, what should we name our resident feed bots (Main and Meta)?</p>
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"text": "<h1>Turing Testing Room</h1>\n\n<p>A play on the term \"Turing test\" (an examination of how well a machine mimics natural conver... | 2016/08/02 | ERROR: type should be string, got [
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40 | <p>A core goal of the private beta is to generate high-quality content that will attract experts. We are also given the opportunity to invite experts by email to the private beta. My question is simple: exactly what kind of experts are we trying to attract?</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/are-all-questions-asked-on-stats-and-data-science-se-also-on-topic-here?cb=1"> this question </a>, data science and the <em>implementation</em> of artificial intelligence are off-topic. The problem is that we don't want to become a duplicate of Stats or Data Science SE. The question links to <a href="https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/24014/will-machine-learning-be-considered-as-on-topic/24016#24016">this answer</a> on Area 51 which says that this site is for questions in the "academic humanities arena". This seems to suggest that we want experts in academic humanities.</p>
<p>However, most experts in the field of artificial intelligence <em>are experts of implementation</em>. They are applied mathematicians and computer scientists who are trying to make artificial intelligence a reality. The recent advances in artificial intelligence, like <a href="https://deepmind.com/alpha-go" rel="nofollow noreferrer"> Alpha Go</a>, have been the result of breakthroughs in implementation.</p>
<p>If this site is about humanities-style questions about Artificial Intelligence, then what appeal does it have to the type of people who created Alpha Go, who are primarily computer scientists and mathematicians? I'm not convinced they have special expertise about the ramifications of Artifical Intelligence on human society, politics, law, etc.</p>
<p>Perhaps we need to redefine what this site is about. I think a place to look for inspiration is Math SE and MathOverflow. One is about mathematics at any level, while the other is a site for research level mathematicians. Maybe Artificial Intelligence SE should be to Data Science SE and Stats SE what MathOverflow is to Math SE. That is, it should be a site about tackling research level AI problems with the tools of data science and statistics. </p>
<p>This means that we'll have to seriously elevate the quality of our questions and answers to attract real AI experts. But at least we'll have experts to attract.</p>
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53 | <p>Is it AI or A.I., or both abbreviations are fine? Basically, with the dots or without?</p>
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"text": "<p>In British English it has to be \"AI\". \nIn American English it can be both \"AI\" and \"A.I.\".</p>\n\n<p>Sources:</p>\n\... | 2016/08/03 | ERROR: type should be string, got [
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54 | <p>There are two tags: <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quantum-computers" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'quantum-computers'" rel="tag">quantum-computers</a> and <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quantum-computing" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'quantum-computing'" rel="tag">quantum-computing</a>. Some question were moved from computing to computers.</p>
<p>Which tag should be the main one?</p>
<p>I think 'quantum computers' sounds more like hardware questions, and 'quantum computing' is a verb which is about using quantum computers for computation.</p>
<p>Which tag should be used then for asking AI questions? Or make another the synonym of it?</p>
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55 | <p>AI is a bloated term---we are facing this since day 1 of the definition stage. There are already quite a few questions going beyond the original (blurry) boundary of the proposal, notably on implementation issues.</p>
<p>But the worst problem seems to be the lack of objectivity in answers, and sometimes in questions too.</p>
<p>I will single out this <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/111/how-would-self-driving-cars-make-ethical-decisions-about-who-to-kill">question</a> at time of reading, but there are already several like this one.</p>
<p>We must avoid too many threads that lack objectivity. I intend to vote down answers that are too subjective (but, well, I cannot down vote infinitely, as you know), and comment as necessary. Scalability issue, even in this private beta.</p>
<p>What would be the best way to proceed?</p>
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59 | <p>Today, I was looking at the oldest questions asked in other sites. Take <strong>Geographic Information Systems</strong> as an example:<br>
<a href="http://stackexchange.com/sites#technology-oldest">The site's age is 6y1m</a> and and as it is seen in <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1425">the area51 page of the site</a>: </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/posts/1425/revisions">The definition phase has started on June 1th 2010.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1425?page=54&phase=commitment&committers=mostrecent#tab-top">The Commitment phase has started on June 14th 2010.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1425?page=1&phase=commitment&committers=mostrecent#tab-top">The private beta phase has started on July 22th 2010.</a> </li>
</ul>
<p>And because that time the private betas last for only one week, probably the public beta started on July 29th 2010.<br>
If you take a look to the oldest questions, you'll see that some of them have been asked even before July 22th 2010. <a href="https://gis.stackexchange.com/q/15541/19874">like this one which has been asked on August 9th 2009 and has been migrated from stackoverflow.com to GIS.SE.</a><br>
Also if you cast a glance to <a href="https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions?page=1431&sort=newest">questions asked before July 29th 2011</a>, you'll see that some of them has been migrated from another sites like superuser.com, etc.<br>
I wanna see if you're going to migrate some questions from other sites to here in private beta?<br>
Or it should be done after getting assured that private beta has ended successfully?<br>
And how will the migration take place?</p>
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1,077 | <p>How should we as a site treat answers which are simply copy-pasted from another source, (whether with or without attribution)? Particularly those which show little understanding of the topic on the part of the poster.</p>
<p>I won't name anyone, but I've seen an answer where the user apparently simply copy-pasted the first paragraph of the first relevant google result, which didn't even really answer the original question. Afterwards, they admitted to know nothing about the topic themselves. </p>
<p>To me, this seems wrong. What is the general stance on this sort of answers?</p>
<p>(To the person in question, if they recognize themselves: Sorry about this, but I think this sort of thing needs to be discussed.)</p>
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1,078 | <p>At one point I thought I got it, but then I lost again.</p>
<p>Few highlights:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/a/46">https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/a/46</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>modeling belongs to Data Science SE</p>
<p>I think the site should be interested in implementation experts.</p>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li><p><a href="https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7">https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>No, data science and the implementation of artificial intelligence are off-topic.</p>
</blockquote>
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<li><p><a href="https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/a/72">https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/a/72</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>suggest that "programming" and "implementation problems" be explicitly listed as outside the scope of this site</p>
</blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Obvious points are:</p>
<ul>
<li>data science questions belong to <a href="https://datascience.stackexchange.com/">Data Science site</a>,</li>
<li>programming questions belong <a href="http://stackoverflow.com">Stack Overflow</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>What about AI implementation and modelling? Above quotes are a bit contradictory.</p>
<p>So what's on-topic exactly, <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/q/1297/8">AI modelling or implementation</a>, or none of it?</p>
<p>If none of it, what should be?</p>
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1,081 | <p>It was <a href="https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/a/72/8">suggested</a> that:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"implementation problems" be explicitly listed as outside the scope of this site</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Can we clarify what this could mean? Some example would be useful.</p>
<hr>
<p><a href="https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1078/what-should-be-on-topic-modelling-or-implementation-or-anything-else#comment1065_1078">@InquisitiveLurker</a> suggested that this could mean asking about inner workings of basic algorithms, but then how we define 'inner working'.</p>
<p>This also may help: <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/q/1297/8">How to distinguish AI modeling from implementation?</a></p>
<hr>
<p>Any ideas?</p>
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1,085 | <p>In these early days, how can we attract attention to the best questions? The current front page does not accurately reflect this. Keeping in mind that our goal is to invite experts, I think it would be great if we could manually curate a list of questions that we can tout as ideal questions for this SE. </p>
<p>(We could create a community wiki here with the answers as we discuss how to proceed)</p>
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1,090 | <p>There is a constant war between spammers and website operators, to prevent websites from spam. CAPTCHA's are the tools to protect sites, and are the front line of this arms race.</p>
<p>This is an area of AI research that is directly relevant to the public. </p>
<p>The question is if we should allow postings about how to defeat CAPTCHA's. They are probably in scope, but we don't want to help spammers.</p>
<p><a href="https://xkcd.com/810/" rel="nofollow">Obligatory XKCD link</a>.</p>
<p>We may get some inspiration from Security.SE. They have some experience in dealing with ethical issues. Over there, they have an explicit close reason for questions about hacking other systems: </p>
<blockquote>
<p>Questions asking us to break the security of a specific system for you are off-topic unless they demonstrate an understanding of the concepts involved and clearly identify a specific problem. </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Maybe we need a similar close reason or off-topic flag?</p>
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1,091 | <p>This is my question about a very common problem faced while training several data science and AI algorithms, and most importantly while backpropogating errors in neural networks, which is <strong>getting trapped in a local minima while descending gradient.</strong></p>
<p>So, according to the discussion under the qn, it is <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/q/1362/101">claimed to be off-topic</a></p>
<p>However, in the defence of my post, I think it is perfectly on-topic in this site, as it asks about a legit problem faced while training neural nets and several other AI algorithms.</p>
<p>So, I am looking forward to what the community thinks regarding this.</p>
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1,099 | <p>So, can someone help me understand what the scope of the site is?</p>
<p><a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/q/1358/101">I ask a question about Monte Carlo search</a>, which is one of the core algorithms behind the Go playing <strong>AI bot</strong>, AlphaGo, and it is closed off as off-topic, citing this reason <code>This question does not appear to be about artificial intelligence</code>.</p>
<p>So, my question is: <strong>Why isn't it about AI?</strong> Isn't AlphaGo an AI bot? Why does asking about an AI algorithm of an AI bot make it off-topic?</p>
<p><strong>Can someone(maybe one of the close-voters) take the example of AlphaGo and explain what an on-topic question and an off-topic question(<-- You can use mine if you want to.) would look like?</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1091/101">I already asked a question about the scope of this site</a>, citing another example, where I'm yet to get a clear answer.</p>
<p>If all the questions get closed as on-topic in DS and CV, then why do we even have this site? (Sorry if I sound rude, but I really want this site to grow. So, the early we sought out our scope, the better.)</p>
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1,103 | <p>It would be nice to add <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/">https://stats.stackexchange.com/</a> as a migration target:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/emrFr.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/emrFr.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
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1,110 | <p>Currently we've the following tags related to gaming:
<a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ai-games" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'ai-games'" rel="tag">ai-games</a>, <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gaming" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'gaming'" rel="tag">gaming</a>, <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/go-game" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'go-game'" rel="tag">go-game</a>, <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-theory" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'game-theory'" rel="tag">game-theory</a>, <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-play" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'game-play'" rel="tag">game-play</a>, <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/games" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'games'" rel="tag">games</a>.</p>
<p>Can we decide on one or two to stick with related to gaming? Which one would be the most suitable?</p>
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1,122 | <p>At the beginning we were worried that this site won't provide anything useful. Is that still the case?</p>
<p>As <a href="http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/31517321#31517321">@Ben</a> mentioned:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Right now, the default state is <strong>fail</strong> unless we can show SE that we bring something new to <em>the</em> network.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Have we managed to bring something new to the <a href="http://stackexchange.com/sites#science-questionsperday">network</a> and this site has found its own distinct and unique scope? What do you think and why?</p>
<hr>
<p>Btw. I've already posted my opinion <a href="https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1119/8">here</a>.</p>
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1,123 | <p>We've this old thread at Area 51 (related to older site proposal which failed):</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11659/61861">How is this proposal different from Cross Validated?</a></li>
</ul>
<p>In general accepted <a href="https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11708/61861">post</a> says:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>First of all, artificial intelligence is a much broader term than machine learning. While at the same time Cross Validated is not about machine learning, but about statistics.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Is it still valid point? Can we elaborate on this further more?</p>
<p>How this site is different from <em>Cross Validated</em>? Do we have now more arguments to it?</p>
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1,139 | <p>By AI programming, I mean somebody asks how to solve programming issue which deals with AI logic specifically, e.g.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/q/1570/8">Why does my NN not classify these tic tac toe pattern correctly?</a></li>
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<p>The above example uses Keras, highly modular neural networks library written in Python.</p>
<hr />
<p>Are these off-topic and why they cannot be here?</p>
<p>If not, would be this ever considered? Especially the code which is very specific to AI coding?</p>
<hr />
<p>Related: <a href="https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/a/46/8">What kind of experts are we trying to attract?</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>In fact, I think now that implementation questions would benefit from a dedicated site (my view has evolved since the Area 51 definition phase). I have replied and tried to reply to several SO questions related to ML tools, and I think some are out of place compared to other questions. For example, some TensorFlow questions are not really programming questions, and not really framework questions. I mean, there is background knowledge on graph construction and execution, as well as background knowledge about statistics and probabilities that are really necessary to make meaningful contributions.</p>
<p>This is not to say that all questions are out of place on SO. Some are really framework issues or (Python) programming issues, and they are good there.</p>
<p>Based on this opinion, I think the site should be interested in implementation experts, whether they work on ML or Expert Systems (or both?).</p>
<p>-- @EricPlaton</p>
</blockquote>
<hr />
<p>So we're talking about coding highly modular neural networks libraries which require advanced background knowledge and AI expertise, and it was suggested.</p>
<p>The same as other specific modular frameworks, where coding questions are on-topic on their dedicated websites, they're allowed on: <a href="https://drupal.stackexchange.com/">Drupal.SE</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/">Wordpress.SE</a>, <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/">TeX.SE</a>, <a href="https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apex">Apex at Salesforce.SE</a>, etc. For a standard programmer without specific expertise, these are a bit of out-of-place on Stack Overflow.</p>
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1,141 | <p>You can see that <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/93481?phase=commitment">here</a>. However, most of the questions here feel rather more on the technological side of artificial intelligence. Those questions are on-topic on Data Science. <em>That</em> site was created as a site for the technological aspect of machine learning and AI, and <em>that</em> is the site that is in the Technology category (see <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/55053?phase=beta">here</a>), in spite of having "Science" in its name.</p>
<p>This was already emphasized by Robert Cartaino on <a href="https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/24014/will-machine-learning-be-considered-as-on-topic">Area 51</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Data Science is an <em>applied</em> site for all the programmers/statisticians/mathematicians who are trying to make this stuff <em>work</em>. [...]</p>
<p>Notice that this proposal is in the 'Science' category; <em>not</em> 'Technology'. [...]</p>
<p>It was convincing enough to give this site another try, but if this site were to simply start reiterating the implementation/tools questions that are already covered elsewhere, this site will not likely make it out of private beta.</p>
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<br>
<p>I already tried to give a hint where we could find science questions here:
<a href="https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1126/where-can-we-find-the-science-part-of-artificial-intelligence">Where can we find the science part of Artificial Intelligence?</a> That is one thing we could do: ask more science questions. The other thing we can do, is closing questions. <em>Please do close</em> questions that are highly technological or asking for applications.</p>
<hr />
<p>I'd like to link some questions that are, in my opinion (but I could be wrong), scientifical :</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/92/how-is-it-possible-that-deep-neural-networks-are-so-easily-fooled">How is it possible that deep neural networks are so easily fooled?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/74/what-is-the-difference-between-strong-ai-and-weak-ai">What is the difference between strong-AI and weak-AI?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/148/what-limits-if-any-does-the-halting-problem-put-on-artificial-intelligence">What limits, if any, does the halting problem put on Artificial Intelligence?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/1397/are-there-any-ai-that-have-passed-the-mist-test-so-far">Are there any AI that have passed the MIST test so far?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/1451/has-the-lovelace-test-2-0-been-successfully-used-in-an-academic-setting">Has the Lovelace Test 2.0 been successfully used in an academic setting?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/123/does-the-chinese-room-argument-hold-against-ai">Does the Chinese Room argument hold against AI?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/1479/do-scientists-know-what-is-happening-inside-artificial-neural-networks">Do scientists know what is happening inside artificial neural networks?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/1525/could-a-boltzmann-machine-store-more-patterns-than-a-hopfield-net">Could a Boltzmann machine store more patterns than a Hopfield net?</a></li>
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<p>There are more questions around that are scientifical and high-quality (fortunately), I just picked a few from the first page of the highest voted list.</p>
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1,147 | <p>I have learned a lot reading xkcd and talking about Hal9000 and Solaris over a beer. Granted: that does not make me any expert in AI, by far. But I see some value to it:</p>
<ul>
<li>I get to know concepts that I look up afterwards</li>
<li>I reflect and try to imagine new problems and solutions</li>
<li>I get another view on news or current (technical) problems I face</li>
<li>I get some things to procrastinate on</li>
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<p>What do you think about questions related to cinema, books and novels, science fiction, etc? What about jokes and funny AI-stuff? </p>
<p>I am not very sharp right now, but maybe something like:</p>
<p><strong>Was HAL9000 programmed to be an egoistic jerk or he just developed it by itself?</strong></p>
<p>Or:</p>
<p><strong>What is your favourite AI-joke?</strong></p>
<p>(<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke/234476">yeah, got it here :)</a>)</p>
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1,151 | <p>This question:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/q/16/8">What is early stopping?</a></li>
</ul>
<p>has been closed as off-topic.</p>
<p>I don't see the reason why it should.</p>
<p>The 'early stopping', in machine learning (<strong>branch of AI</strong>) is used to avoid overfitting when training. Therefore I don't see this question as off-topic.</p>
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1,161 | <p>I have provided an <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/a/1522/169">answer</a> where I fail to find a critical source. After looking for it again today, I still cannot find it. Worse still, I have read new articles, reviewed some at the time, and cannot find any other report that <em>explicitly</em> shares the critical source's point. I did find reports that <em>elude</em> to the argument.</p>
<p>I have added a <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/a/1522/169">warning</a> on that missing source. I believe it does not impact the answer value to the thread, but that missing source does impact credibility. As the accepted answer, I am thinking to delete the paragraph that mentions the source.</p>
<p>What should I do? Leave the warning, remove warning and paragraph?</p>
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1,165 | <p>Ideally Moderators are elected by the community, but until the community is large enough to hold a proper election, we will be appointing three provisional Moderators to fill those roles.</p>
<p>We need your help. Please nominate folks you would like to see become provisional moderators for this site. Your input will provide valuable insight to help us make our selections. You can read more about the process here: <strong><a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/">Moderators Pro Tempore</a>.</strong></p>
<h2>The Nomination Process:</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Nominate a user</strong> by posting an 'answer' below. Each nomination should be a separate answer. Use the template at the bottom of this post to complete your nomination.</li>
<li><strong>Self nominations are encouraged.</strong> This is a volunteer activity, so users should not feel obligated to accept these positions. A self-nomination is simply a way to say, "I am very much interested in this, so let my record speak for itself."</li>
<li><strong>Tell us about the candidates.</strong> Nominations can include links to other activities like Area 51 participation, participation in other sites, or any relevant thoughts/links that may help us make an informed decision.</li>
<li><strong>Nominee should indicate their acceptance</strong> by editing the answer to <strong>accept/decline</strong> the nomination. Nominees: please ensure your profile email is correct so we can contact you. Optionally, you are encouraged to write a bit about yourself following your acceptance.
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<p>I accept/decline this nomination.</p>
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<h2>Here is what we'll be looking for in a Moderator candidate:</h2>
<p>We are looking for members who are deeply engaged in the community's development; members who:</p>
<ul>
<li>Have been consistently active during the earliest weeks of this site's creation</li>
<li>Show an interest in their meta's community-building activities</li>
<li>Lead by example, showing patience and respect for their fellow community members in everything they write</li>
<li>Exhibit those intangible traits discussed in <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/"><strong>A Theory of Moderation</strong></a></li>
</ul>
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1,174 | <p>This tag doesn't really seem to be much use. <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brain" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'brain'" rel="tag">brain</a> would seem a more appropriate tag for a site like biology.SE.</p>
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"text": "<p>I think a lot of topics about AI/ANN wants to achieve a brain simulation, so maybe we can rename it to: <a href=\"https://ai.... | 2016/08/17 | ERROR: type should be string, got [
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1,177 | <p><a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deepqa" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'deepqa'" rel="tag">deepqa</a> is just another name for <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watson" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'watson'" rel="tag">watson</a>. Can we perhaps merge these tags, with <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watson" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'watson'" rel="tag">watson</a> being the real one?</p>
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"text": "<p>Yes, it's pointless to have two tags referring to the same thing. Since <a href=\"https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagg... | 2016/08/17 | ERROR: type should be string, got [
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1,197 | <p>If you browse through the <a href="/questions/tagged/scope" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'scope'" rel="tag">scope</a> tag here on meta, you'll see that our scope might not be entirely obvious from the site title. When we open to the public, though, it's really important that we can quickly summarize our scope. Not everybody will have the patience to go through all our meta discussions before posting. Therefore, I think we should try to boil our consensuses down into a sentence or so, suitable for putting on the "sign up" banner.</p>
<p>For example, here's <a href="https://superuser.com/">Super User</a>'s, emphasis mine:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Super User is a question and answer site <strong>for computer enthusiasts and power users</strong>. Join them; it only takes a minute</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/">Programmers</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Programmers Stack Exchange is a question and answer site <strong>for professional programmers interested in conceptual questions about software development</strong>. Join them; it only takes a minute</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://datascience.stackexchange.com/">Data Science</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Data Science Stack Exchange is a question and answer site <strong>for Data science professionals, Machine Learning specialists, and those interested in learning more about the field</strong>. Join them; it only takes a minute</p>
</blockquote>
<p>What should we have in that spot? As <a href="https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1198/75">mentioned by wythagoras</a>, we do have a default already in the tour, but do we need to adjust it after our meta deliberations?</p>
<p>(This is the fourth <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/223675/295684">real essential meta question</a> for private beta sites.)</p>
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1,205 | <p>I've the feeling this would be opinion based or too broad, so I come here for community review before writing a more complete question.</p>
<p>The root of the question is where to put the limit between "automated system" and "artificial intelligence".</p>
<p>For example, would an hybrid car able to start by itself a generator to charge back after a period of use/battery level could be called an artificial intelligence and if not at which point could we start talking about artificial intelligence ? </p>
<p>If this happen to be on-topic, which would be the relevant tags ?</p>
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"text": "<p>It appears that there is at least one question like this on the site:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://ai.stackexchange.com/q... | 2016/08/24 | ERROR: type should be string, got [
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1,215 | <p>There's been some comment discussion as to whether a couple of questions e.g. <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/1784/using-feature-learning-for-a-medical-text-classification-problem">this one</a> and <a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/1783/how-to-represent-a-large-decision-tree">this one</a> have been on topic.</p>
<p>In my opinion:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>We should take care not to readily dismiss technical questions
as being 'programming related'. </p></li>
<li><p>It's worth asking whether (even if the question mentions a specific
technique) it could be answered with reference to open issues in AI.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>For example, quite a number of questions (most of which have, in my opinion rightly, been left open without issue) are concerned with how to choose features for learning. In one respect, this is the single biggest issue facing AI: the current vogue for DL approaches is precisely because of the progress they claim in this area.</p>
<p>In particular: <em>the data science community has not solved this problem</em> - they are in general consumers of relatively stable research, rather than at the cutting edge, as is the case for AI.</p>
<p>Hence, we maybe shouldn't dismiss these things as implementation if they can usefully be treated conceptually.</p>
<p>Perhaps we can use "Is this a solved problem (in research terms)" as a heuristic to help us here. There's certainly precident for this: it is precisely the distinction between the 'Mathematics' and 'Math Overflow' SE sites.</p>
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1,221 | <p>For example:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://ai.stackexchange.com/q/1824/8">Why would an AI need to 'wipe out the human race'?</a></li>
</ul>
<p>There is already the website for <a href="https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/">philosophical question</a>, however here we can have more direct answers from the AI experts.</p>
<p>Should we allow such questions?</p>
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"text": "<p>Yes. </p>\n\n<p>If we send away everyone asking about philosophy; send everyone asking about feature selection for AN... | 2016/09/02 | ERROR: type should be string, got [
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1,225 | <p>As we can see the current <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/93481/artificial-intelligence">stats of the site</a>: </p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/VvdrO.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/VvdrO.png" alt="site statistics"></a></p>
<p>Alos, we've had similar proposal which all went in vain:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6607/artificial-intelligence">Closed after 12 days in beta</a></li>
<li><a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/57719/artificial-intelligence">Closed after 18 days in beta</a></li>
</ol>
<p>What should be done to maintain a healthy site? </p>
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1,227 | <p>I have been thinking about the <em>"shelf life"</em> of the questions & answers here, and have the following observations:</p>
<p><strong>1.</strong> Artificial Intelligence is a rapidly changing, very active research area. I think there are questions open... I mean without <em>current</em> answer, to say it coarsely. I can imagine, that some answers will turn out to be out-of-date or be outperformed many times. It is possible that in one month or one year we get a very different answer, because <strong>(a)</strong> Some people are researching actively and discovered something amazing, or <strong>(b)</strong> New users come to the site (and knew of a better answer).</p>
<p><strong>2.</strong> AI.SX is definitely different from other sites in stackexchage, because the questions are not like <em>quickies</em>. It is not like <em>I need to solve this urgent issue now, how do I do it?</em>. Many questions have different answers, which often complement themselves. Also, from the comments on an answer (or question), it can be edited to include new points and will be better.</p>
<p><strong>3.</strong> The former point is much more noticeable, since this site is about <em>science</em> and not <em>technology</em>. The topic about specific algorithms or techniques has been discussed here on several meta questions. A side-effect is that the questions tend to be (in my opinion) broader. I personally think that is OK, and wish for a certain discussion rather than <strong>the</strong> answer.</p>
<p>Seeing all that, I think that many questions could be left open for... Well, like forever. Because many are <em>active</em> questions, which cannot be <em>solved</em> like in other sites of the network: </p>
<p><strong>Question → Answer → <code>hasaccepted:yes</code></strong></p>
<p>Perhaps that could lead to more answers in community wiki, to which one comes (next month) after reading some new things or hearing another conference? </p>
<p>Or we just get new answers to questions with an accepted answer and switch (the checkmark) if the new is better?</p>
<p>What do you think will happen?</p>
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