Publikation
SE4ML - Software Engineering for AI-ML-based Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 20091)
Kristian Kersting; Miryung Kim; Guy Van den Broeck; Thomas Zimmermann
In: Dagstuhl Reports, Vol. 10, No. 2, Pages 76-87, Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, 2020.
Zusammenfassung
Multiple research disciplines, from cognitive sciences to biology, finance, physics, and the social sciences, as well as many companies, believe that data-driven and intelligent solutions are necessary. Unfortunately, current artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are not sufficiently democratized-building complex AI and ML systems requires deep expertise in computer science and extensive programming skills to work with various machine reasoning and learning techniques at a rather low level of abstraction. It also requires extensive trial and error exploration for model selection, data cleaning, feature selection, and parameter tuning. Moreover, there is a lack of theoretical understanding that could be used to abstract away these subtleties. Conventional programming languages and software engineering paradigms have also not been designed to address challenges faced by AI and ML practitioners. In 2016, companies invested $26–39 billion in AI and McKinsey predicts that investments will be growing over the next few years. Any AI/ML-based systems will need to be built, tested, and maintained, yet there is a lack of established engineering practices in industry for such systems because they are fundamentally different from traditional software systems.