Artificial Intelligence: Introducing the ACM Ubiquity Symposium on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is changing our world. The arrival of ChatGPT in 2022 brought AI into the public spotlight with a dramatic new capability. A user can how engage in a fluent conversation in ordinary language with a computer. Suddenly many people want to know what AI is, whether it is safe, and what benefits it might bring. Artificial intelligence is defined to be a collection of machines and algorithms that perform tasks normally considered to require human cognition. Opinions and claims about the possible benefits and risks of AI are all over the map. In response to the confusion, the Ubiquity editors are launching a symposium on AI. It will be a series of about two dozen articles on the many aspects of AI and its applications. The series will be synthesized into the “Ubiquity Report on Artificial Intelligence,” which is intended to be an authoritative and trustworthy summary of present and future AI.