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AI Glossary - What Is ARTMAP?


     


    What Is ARTMAP AI Algorithm?



    The supervised learning variant of the ART-1 model is ARTMAP.

    It learns binary input patterns that are given to it.


    The suffix "MAP" is used in the names of numerous supervised ART algorithms, such as Fuzzy ARTMAP.

    Both the inputs and the targets are clustered in these algorithms, and the two sets of clusters are linked.


    The ARTMAP algorithms' fundamental flaw is that they lack a way to prevent overfitting, hence they should not be utilized with noisy data.


    How Does The ARTMAP Neural Network Work?



    A novel neural network architecture called ARTMAP automatically picks out recognition categories for any numbers of arbitrarily ordered vectors depending on the accuracy of predictions. 

    A pair of Adaptive Resonance Theory modules (ARTa and ARTb) that may self-organize stable recognition categories in response to random input pattern sequences make up this supervised learning system. 

    The ARTa module gets a stream of input patterns ([a(p)]) and the ARTb module receives a stream of input patterns ([b(p)]), where b(p) is the right prediction given a (p). 

    An internal controller and an associative learning network connect these ART components to provide real-time autonomous system functioning. 

    The remaining patterns a(p) are shown during test trials without b(p), and their predictions at ARTb are contrasted with b. (p). 



    The ARTMAP system learns orders of magnitude more quickly, efficiently, and accurately than alternative algorithms when tested on a benchmark machine learning database in both on-line and off-line simulations, and achieves 100% accuracy after training on less than half the input patterns in the database. 


    It accomplishes these features by using an internal controller that, on a trial-by-trial basis, links predictive success to category size and simultaneously optimizes predictive generalization and reduces predictive error, using only local operations. 

    By the smallest amount required to rectify a predicted inaccuracy at ARTb, this calculation raises the alertness parameter an of ARTa. 

    To accept a category or hypothesis triggered by an input a(p), rather than seeking a better one via an autonomously controlled process of hypothesis testing, ARTa must have a minimal level of confidence, which is calibrated by the parameter a. 

    The degree of agreement between parameter a and the top-down learnt expectation, or prototype, which is read out after activating an ARTa category, is compared. 

    If the degree of match is less than a, search is initiated. 


    The self-organizing expert system known as ARTMAP adjusts the selectivity of its hypotheses depending on the accuracy of its predictions. 

    As a result, even if they are identical to frequent occurrences with distinct outcomes, unusual but significant events may be promptly and clearly differentiated. 

    In the intervals between input trials, a returns to baseline alertness. 

    When is big, the system operates in a cautious mode and only makes predictions when it is certain of the result. 

    At no step of learning, therefore, do many false-alarm mistakes happen, yet the system nonetheless achieves asymptote quickly. 

    Due to the self-stabilizing nature of ARTMAP learning, it may continue to learn one or more databases without deteriorating its corpus of memories until all available memory has been used.


    What Is Fuzzy ARTMAP?



    For incremental supervised learning of recognition categories and multidimensional maps in response to arbitrary sequences of analogue or binary input vectors, which may represent fuzzily or crisply defined sets of characteristics, a neural network architecture is developed. 

    By taking advantage of a close formal resemblance between the computations of fuzzy subsethood and ART category choosing, resonance, and learning, the architecture, dubbed fuzzy ARTMAP, accomplishes a synthesis of fuzzy logic and adaptive resonance theory (ART) neural networks. 



    In comparison to benchmark backpropagation and general algorithm systems, fuzzy ARTMAP performance was shown using four simulation classes. 



    A letter recognition database, learning to distinguish between two spirals, identifying locations inside and outside of a circle, and incremental approximation of a piecewise-continuous function are some of the simulations included in this list. 

    Additionally, the fuzzy ARTMAP system is contrasted with Simpson's FMMC system and Salzberg's NGE systems.



    ~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan

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    References And Further Reading:


    • Moreira-Júnior, J.R., Abreu, T., Minussi, C.R. and Lopes, M.L., 2022. Using Aggregated Electrical Loads for the Multinodal Load Forecasting. Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems, pp.1-9.
    • Ferreira, W.D.A.P., Grout, I. and da Silva, A.C.R., 2022, March. Application of a Fuzzy ARTMAP Neural Network for Indoor Air Quality Prediction. In 2022 International Electrical Engineering Congress (iEECON) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
    • La Marca, A.F., Lopes, R.D.S., Lotufo, A.D.P., Bartholomeu, D.C. and Minussi, C.R., 2022. BepFAMN: A Method for Linear B-Cell Epitope Predictions Based on Fuzzy-ARTMAP Artificial Neural Network. Sensors22(11), p.4027.
    • Santos-Junior, C.R., Abreu, T., Lopes, M.L. and Lotufo, A.D., 2021. A new approach to online training for the Fuzzy ARTMAP artificial neural network. Applied Soft Computing113, p.107936.
    • Ferreira, W.D.A.P., 2021. Rede neural ARTMAP fuzzy implementada em hardware aplicada na previsão da qualidade do ar em ambiente interno.









    Artificial Intelligence - What Is The Trolley Problem?

     



    Philippa Foot used the term "trolley problem" in 1967 to describe an ethical difficulty.

    Artificial intelligence advancements in different domains have sparked ethical debates regarding how these systems' decision-making processes should be designed.




    Of course, there is widespread worry about AI's capacity to assess ethical challenges and respect societal values.

    An operator finds herself near a trolley track, standing next to a lever that determines whether the trolley will continue on its current path or go in a different direction, in this classic philosophical thought experiment.

    Five people are standing on the track where the trolley is running, unable to get out of the path and certain to be murdered if the trolley continues on its current course.

    On the opposite track, there is another person who will be killed if the operator pulls the lever.





    The operator has the option of pulling the lever, killing one person while rescuing the other five, or doing nothing and allowing the other five to perish.

    This is a typical problem between utilitarianism (activities should maximize the well-being of affected persons) and deontology (actions should maximize the well-being of affected individuals) (whether the action is right or wrong based on rules, as opposed to the consequences of the action).

    With the development of artificial intelligence, the issue has arisen how we should teach robots to behave in scenarios that are perceived as inescapable realities, such as the Trolley Problem.

    The Trolley Problem has been investigated with relation to artificial intelligence in fields such as primary health care, the operating room, security, self-driving automobiles, and weapons technology.

    The subject has been studied most thoroughly in the context of self-driving automobiles, where regulations, guidelines, and norms have already been suggested or developed.

    Because autonomous vehicles have already gone millions of kilometers in the United States, they face this difficulty.

    The problem is made more urgent by the fact that a few self-driving car users have actually died while utilizing the technology.

    Accidents have sparked even greater public discussion over the proper use of this technology.





    Moral Machine is an online platform established by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to crowdsource responses to issues regarding how self-driving automobiles should prioritize lives.

    The makers of The Moral Machine urge users to the website to guess what option a self-driving automobile would make in a variety of Trolley Problem-style problems.

    Respondents must prioritize the lives of car passengers, pedestrians, humans and animals, people walking legally or illegally, and people of various fitness levels and socioeconomic status, among other variables.

    When respondents are in a car, they almost always indicate that they would move to save their own lives.

    It's possible that crowd-sourced solutions aren't the best method to solve Trolley Problem problems.

    Trading a pedestrian life for a vehicle passenger's life, for example, may be seen as arbitrary and unjust.

    The aggregated solutions currently do not seem to represent simple utilitarian calculations that maximize lives saved or favor one sort of life over another.

    It's unclear who will get to select how AI will be programmed and who will be held responsible if AI systems fail.





    This obligation might be assigned to policymakers, the corporation that develops the technology, or the people who end up utilizing it.

    Each of these factors has its own set of ramifications that must be handled.

    The Trolley Problem's usefulness in resolving AI quandaries is not widely accepted.

    The Trolley Problem is dismissed by some artificial intelligence and ethics academics as a helpful thinking exercise.

    Their arguments are usually based on the notion of trade-offs between different lifestyles.

    They claim that the Trolley Problem lends credence to the idea that these trade-offs (as well as autonomous vehicle disasters) are unavoidable.

    Instead than concentrating on the best methods to avoid a dilemma like the trolley issue, policymakers and programmers should instead concentrate on the best ways to react to the different circumstances.



    ~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan

    Find Jai on Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram


    You may also want to read more about Artificial Intelligence here.



    See also: 

    Accidents and Risk Assessment; Air Traffic Control, AI and; Algorithmic Bias and Error; Autonomous Weapons Systems, Ethics of; Driverless Cars and Trucks; Moral Turing Test; Robot Ethics.


    References And Further Reading

    Cadigan, Pat. 2018. AI and the Trolley Problem. New York: Tor.

    Etzioni, Amitai, and Oren Etzioni. 2017. “Incorporating Ethics into Artificial Intelligence.” Journal of Ethics 21: 403–18.

    Goodall, Noah. 2014. “Ethical Decision Making during Automated Vehicle Crashes.” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2424: 58–65.

    Moolayil, Amar Kumar. 2018. “The Modern Trolley Problem: Ethical and Economically Sound Liability Schemes for Autonomous Vehicles.” Case Western Reserve Journal of Law, Technology & the Internet 9, no. 1: 1–32.



    Artificial Intelligence - Who Is Mark Tilden?

     


    Mark Tilden(1961–) is a biomorphic robot freelance designer from Canada.

    A number of his robots are sold as toys.

    Others have appeared in television and cinema as props.

    Tilden is well-known for his opposition to the notion that strong artificial intelligence is required for complicated robots.

    Tilden is a forerunner in the field of BEAM robotics (biology, electronics, aesthetics, and mechanics).

    To replicate biological neurons, BEAM robots use analog circuits and systems, as well as continuously varying signals, rather as digital electronics and microprocessors.

    Biomorphic robots are programmed to change their gaits in order to save energy.

    When such robots come into impediments or changes in the underlying terrain, they are knocked out of their lowest energy condition, forcing them to adapt to a new walking pattern.

    The mechanics of the underlying machine rely heavily on self-adaptation.

    After failing to develop a traditional electronic robot butler in the late 1980s, Tilden resorted to BEAM type robots.

    The robot could barely vacuum floors after being programmed with Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.



    After hearing MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks speak at Waterloo University on the advantages of basic sensorimotor, stimulus-response robotics versus computationally complex mobile devices, Tilden completely abandoned the project.

    Til den left Brooks' lecture questioning if dependable robots might be built without the use of computer processors or artificial intelligence.

    Rather than having the intelligence written into the robot's programming, Til den hypothesized that the intelligence may arise from the robot's operating environment, as well as the emergent features that resulted from that world.

    Tilden studied and developed a variety of unusual analog robots at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, employing fast prototyping and off-the-shelf and cannibalized components.



    Los Alamos was looking for robots that could operate in unstructured, unpredictable, and possibly hazardous conditions.

    Tilden built almost a hundred robot prototypes.

    His SATBOT autonomous spaceship prototype could align itself with the Earth's magnetic field on its own.

    He built fifty insectoid robots capable of creeping through minefields and identifying explosive devices for the Marine Corps Base Quantico.

    A robot known as a "aggressive ashtray" spits water at smokers.

    A "solar spinner" was used to clean the windows.

    The actions of an ant were reproduced by a biomorph made from five broken Sony Walkmans.

    Tilden started building Living Machines powered by solar cells at Los Alamos.

    These machines ran at extremely sluggish rates due to their energy source, but they were dependable and efficient for lengthy periods of time, often more than a year.

    Tilden's first robot designs were based on thermodynamic conduit engines, namely tiny and efficient solar engines that could fire single neurons.

    Rather than the workings of their brains, his "nervous net" neurons controlled the rhythms and patterns of motion in robot bodies.

    Tilden's idea was to maximize the amount of patterns conceivable while using the fewest number of implanted transistors feasible.

    He learned that with just twelve transistors, he could create six different movement patterns.

    Tilden might replicate hopping, leaping, running, sitting, crawling, and a variety of other patterns of behavior by folding the six patterns into a figure eight in a symmetrical robot chassis.

    Since then, Tilden has been a proponent of a new set of robot principles for such survivalist wild automata.

    Tilden's Laws of Robotics say that (1) a robot must safeguard its survival at all costs; (2) a robot must get and keep access to its own power source; and (3) a robot must always seek out better power sources.

    Tilden thinks that wild robots will be used to rehabilitate ecosystems that have been harmed by humans.

    Tilden had another breakthrough when he introduced very inexpensive robots as toys for the general public and robot aficionados.

    He wanted his robots to be in the hands of as many people as possible, so that hackers, hobbyists, and members of different maker communities could reprogramme and modify them.

    Tilden designed the toys in such a way that they could be dismantled and analyzed.

    They might be hacked in a basic way.

    Everything is color-coded and labeled, and all of the wires have gold-plated contacts that can be ripped apart.

    Tilden is presently working with WowWee Toys in Hong Kong on consumer-oriented entertainment robots:

    • B.I.O. Bugs, Constructobots, G.I. Joe Hoverstrike, Robosapien, Roboraptor, Robopet, Roborep tile, Roboquad, Roboboa, Femisapien, and Joebot are all popular WowWee robot toys.
    • The Roboquad was designed for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Mars exploration program.
    • Tilden is also the developer of the Roomscooper cleaning robot.


    WowWee Toys sold almost three million of Tilden's robot designs by 2005.


    Tilden made his first robotic doll when he was three years old.

    At the age of six, he built a Meccano suit of armor for his cat.

    At the University of Waterloo, he majored in Systems Engineering and Mathematics.


    Tilden is presently working on OpenCog and OpenCog Prime alongside artificial intelligence pioneer Ben Goertzel.


    OpenCog is a worldwide initiative supported by the Hong Kong government that aims to develop an open-source emergent artificial general intelligence framework as well as a common architecture for embodied robotic and virtual cognition.

    Dozens of IT businesses across the globe are already using OpenCog components.

    Tilden has worked on a variety of films and television series as a technical adviser or robot designer, including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Paul Blart Mall Cop (2009), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).

    In the Big Bang Theory (2007–2019), his robots are often displayed on the bookshelves of Sheldon's apartment.



    ~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan

    Find Jai on Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram


    You may also want to read more about Artificial Intelligence here.



    See also: 

    Brooks, Rodney; Embodiment, AI and.


    References And Further Reading

    Frigo, Janette R., and Mark W. Tilden. 1995. “SATBOT I: Prototype of a Biomorphic Autonomous Spacecraft.” Mobile Robotics, 66–75.

    Hapgood, Fred. 1994. “Chaotic Robots.” Wired, September 1, 1994. https://www.wired.com/1994/09/tilden/.

    Hasslacher, Brosl, and Mark W. Tilden. 1995. “Living Machines.” Robotics and Autonomous Systems 15, no. 1–2: 143–69.

    Marsh, Thomas. 2010. “The Evolution of a Roboticist: Mark Tilden.” Robot Magazine, December 7, 2010. http://www.botmag.com/the-evolution-of-a-roboticist-mark-tilden.

    Menzel, Peter, and Faith D’Aluisio. 2000. “Biobots.” Discover Magazine, September 1, 2000. https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/biobots.

    Rietman, Edward A., Mark W. Tilden, and Manor Askenazi. 2003. “Analog Computation with Rings of Quasiperiodic Oscillators: The Microdynamics of Cognition in Living Machines.” Robotics and Autonomous Systems 45, no. 3–4: 249–63.

    Samans, James. 2005. The Robosapiens Companion: Tips, Tricks, and Hacks. New York: Apress.



    ISRO Shukrayaan-1 Venus Mission



      The Indian Space Research Organization has a long history of awe-inspiring the rest of the world by completing space missions at remarkably inexpensive prices. 


      In keeping with this tradition, the ISRO has set its sights on a Venus mission that would cost between Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 crore.


      "The price will be determined by the level of instrumentation. ISRO chairman S Somanath said, "If you install a lot of payload sensors, the cost would automatically go up."


      While foreign space organizations such as NASA spend vast sums of money on space missions, the ISRO prefers to focus on low-cost projects. 

      ISRO's Chandrayan-1 was a low-cost spacecraft developed for about Rs 386 crore. 


      The Chandrayaan-2 mission cost Rs 603 crore to develop, and Rs 367 crore to launch. (1 million USD is roughly = 7.8 Crores INR in 2022)


      The ISRO chairman said the agency is in the process of approaching the Union government for authorization for the mission, speaking to the media on the sidelines of a national conference on Aerospace Quality and Reliability.




      In response to concerns, he said that the timetable for Chandrayan-3 is still being worked out. 


      Following its Moon and Mars expeditions, the ISRO is considering a Venus trip. 

      Despite speculations that the ISRO is aiming a December 2024 launch window for the Venus mission, Somanath stated the timeline has yet to be finalized. 

      It would only be disclosed when the Union government had given its final approval. 


      The ISRO has worked hard to guarantee that it would be a one-of-a-kind mission. 


      "We have to be cautious with such pricey missions," he warned.

      "We don't want to conduct a Venus expedition just for the fun of it. 

      We're doing it because of the distinct identity that this mission will establish among all future Venus expeditions. 

      "That's the aim," Somanath said, adding that the mission would create a lot of data that scientists could use. 


      Despite the fact that the timetable has yet to be disclosed, the ISRO is well prepared. 

      "The technology definition, task package, scheduling, and procurement are all complete. But then it needs to go to the government, which will review it and ultimately approve it," he said. 

      According to him, Chandrayan 3 is now undergoing testing for navigation, instrumentation, and ground simulations. 

      However, no timetable has been established.





      India is preparing to enter the race to get to Venus alongside the US and many other nations after successfully completing Moon and Mars missions. 


      The mission's goal will be to investigate Venus's poisonous and corrosive atmosphere, which is characterized by clouds of sulfuric acid that blanket the planet.

      S Somanath, the head of Isro, said the project has been in the works for years and that the space agency is now "ready to launch an orbiter to Venus." "The project report is complete, the general plans are complete, and the funds have been identified. 

      "Building and launching a mission to Venus in a very short period of time is doable for India since the capacity exists now," the Isro chairman stated during a daylong seminar on Venusian research.




      The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is a Venus orbiter called designed to examine the planet's surface and atmosphere.


      In 2017, funds were given to finish early investigations, and instrument tenders were announced.

      The orbiter's scientific payload capabilities, depending on its ultimate design, would be about 100 kilograms (220 lb) with 500 W of power.

      At periapsis, the elliptical orbit around Venus is projected to be 500 kilometers (310 miles) long and 60,000 kilometers (37,000 miles) long. 



      Payload for science.





      The scientific payload will be 100 kg (220 lb) in weight and would include equipment from India and other nations. 

      Indian payloads and 7 foreign payloads have been shortlisted as of December 2019. 



      Instruments from India


      • Venus SAR L&S-Band
      • VARTISS (HF radar)
      • VSEAM (Surface Emissivity) (Surface Emissivity)
      • VCMC (VTC (Thermal Camera)) (Cloud Monitoring)
      • LIVE (Lightning Sensor)


      • VASP (Spectro Polarimeter)
      • SPAV (Solar occultation photometry)
      • NAVA (Airglow imager)
      • RAVI (RO Experiment)
      • * ETA (Electron Temperature Analyzer)
      • RPA (Retarding Potential Analyzer)
      • Spectrometer of mass
      • (Plasma Analyzer)* VISWAS


      • VREM (Radiation Environment)
      • SSXS (Solar Soft X-ray Spectrometer )
      • VIPER (Plasma Wave Detector)
      • VODEX (Dust experiment)
      • * Collaboration with Germany and Sweden is envisaged for RAVI and VISWAS. 




      International Payloads



        • Space Research Institute, Moscow, and LATMOS, France developed VIRAL (Venus Infrared Atmospheric Gas Linker).
        • IVOLGA is a laser heterodyne NIR spectrometer used to investigate the structure and dynamics of Venus's mesosphere.


      Overview Of The ISRO Shukrayaan Mission


      Surface/subsurface stratigraphy and resurfacing processes are among the three broad research areas for this mission; second, study atmospheric chemistry, dynamics, and compositional variations; and third, study solar irradiance and solar wind interaction with Venus' ionosphere while studying the structure, composition, and dynamics of the atmosphere.





      Shukrayaan Mission Inception, History And Status


      ISRO has been researching the possibility of future interplanetary missions to Mars and Venus, Earth's nearest planetary neighbors, based on the success of Chandrayaan and the Mangalyaan. 


      • The Venus mission proposal was initially proposed in 2012 at a Tirupati space meet. 
      • The Indian government increased funding for the Department of Space by 23% in its 2017–18 budget. 
      • The budget specifies funds "for Mars Orbiter Mission II and Mission to Venus" under the space sciences department, and it was approved to perform preliminary investigations after the 2017–18 request for funding. 



      ISRO issued a 'Announcement of Opportunity' (AO) on April 19, 2017, requesting scientific payload ideas from Indian universities based on wide mission parameters.


      ISRO issued another 'Announcement of Opportunity' on November 6, 2018, soliciting payload applications from the worldwide scientific community. 

      The allowable scientific payload capacity was reduced from 175 kg in the first AO to 100 kg. 




      In 2018, India's ISRO and France's CNES had talks about collaborating on this mission and developing autonomous navigation and aerobraking technology together.


      • In addition, using his knowledge from the Vega mission, French astronomer Jacques Blamont indicated interest in using inflated balloons to examine the Venusian atmosphere to U R Rao. 
      • These instrumented balloons may be launched from an orbiter and gather long-term observations while floating in the planet's comparatively benign upper atmosphere, similar to the Vega missions. 
      • ISRO agreed to investigate a proposal to research the Venusian atmosphere at 55 kilometers (34 miles) altitude with a balloon probe carrying a 10 kilogram (22 pound) payload. 






      The Venus project is still in the configuration research phase as of late 2018, and ISRO has not yet received complete sanction from the Indian government.


      In 2019, IUCAA Director Somak Raychaudhury announced that a drone-like probe was being considered as part of the mission. 

      ISRO scientist T Maria Antonita stated in a report to NASA's Decadal Planetary Science Committee that the launch would take place in December 2024. 

      She also said that a backup date in 2026 exists. 



      ISRO has selected 20 foreign bids as of November 2020, including collaborations with Russia, France, Sweden, and Germany. 


      ISRO and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics are working together on the Shukrayaan-1 project. 

      ISRO chairman S. Somanath indicated in May 2022 that the mission will launch in December 2024, with a backup launch window in 2031.



      Shukrayaan Mission Salient Features





      Type of mission Shukrayaan-1: Venus orbiter

      Operator: ISRO

      Planned mission duration: 4 years


      Spacecraft characteristics:


      Manufacturer: ISAC

      2,500 kg launch mass (5,500 lb)

      100 kilogram payload mass (220 lb)

      Payload power is 500 watts (0.67 horsepower).

      December 2024 is the scheduled launch date (planned)

      Launch Vehicle: GSLV Mark II rocket


      SDSC SHAR Contractor : ISRO Launch Site


      Missions Primary Components:

      • Orbiter of Venus
      • Atmospheric probe for Venus
      • Aerobot balloon is a spacecraft component.

      ~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan.


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