AI Research Perspectives from the AI community - relating to my course at the University of Oxford

Background

Here is an interesting idea I am working on - and which could benefit you

As you know, I am the course director of the University of Oxford course Artificial Intelligence: Generative AI, Cloud and MLOps (online) (and also other courses on AI). These are pioneering courses - at the very cutting edge of AI.

Every three months, I spend time with my team formally discussing where AI is going.

But AI is moving very fast for all of us.

There are many areas of AI which I am personally unfamiliar with - for example the synergies between nuclear and quantum for Artificial Intelligence

We are going to launch a series of Open articles called AI Research Perspectives from either tutors on the course or invited collaborators to explore interesting areas of AI applicable today. This will be shared openly and will be associated with our course as perspectives students should explore.

Format for AI Research Perspectives

• AI Research Perspectives will be formal but not an academic paper
• More like perspectives in journals see this example
• The content can be an article, a tutorial etc
• Size could be typically between 2 to 4 A4 pages (excluding any code repo which can be added s a reference)
• We welcome contributions from companies (non promotional), individuals, students and individuals within companies (but sharing as a personal perspective)
• The perspectives will be openly published - so they should not contain any intellectual property.
• The perspectives should be original
• Typically, the perspectives will be interdisciplinary (but related to AI)
• We welcome the use of LLMs for research and your work. Of course the article should not be entirely LLM written
• The article should demonstrate your personal experience in this area
• The exception to personal experience is if you are a student. In this case, you would still have to clarify why you think something is interesting based on a research gap (see below)
• There is no cost and we do not charge a cost for access

Research Gap

We are interested in identifying research gaps. See this as an example of using literature reviews to identify a research gap. Note that we don't ask for an academic review - but we value the process of finding research gaps and the work which will show why an AI perspective is relevant now. You may reference good sources - academic or industry. So, you would use the literature review to indicate the state of the art in the domain and then to demonstrate how your perspective extends the body of knowledge in the field.

Next steps

If you are interested please suggest through this Google form

I welcome feedback to the concept of AI perspectives but please do not ask me to give feedback on your ideas. Please use the Google form above for all ideas.

Notes

AI Research Perspectives is an initiative to foster and nurture ideas in AI. It is associated with the Oxford University Courses I run as a way to benefit our students. The initiative is a personal initiative created by Ajit Jaokar and an advisory team for the purpose of sharing knowledge and ideas.