The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) has published its Spring 2024 Special Issue of AI Magazine.
This AI Magazine Special Issue spotlights the research areas, applications, education initiatives, and public engagement spearheaded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and USDA-NIFA-funded AI Research Institutes. Also included in the issue are background on the NSF’s National AI Research Institutes program, its significance in guiding U.S. AI research strategy, and the future of the program.
Titled “Beneficial AI”, this issue serves to demonstrate the various AI research domains, all with the end goal of AI Implementation for social good. The issue is open access and available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/23719621/2024/45/1. Access the PDF here: https://aiinstitutes.org/wp-content/uploads/AI-Magazine-Spring-2024-NSFs-National-AI-Institutes.pdf.
The cover image was generated by Midjourney, responding to a prompt that included notions of, “people from various professions(teachers, nurses, farmers, engineers, and artists), working together to create and guide AI to facilitate collaboration, innovation, and problem-solving for the common good.” While this is a challenging concept for man or machine to represent in a single image, this issue’s articles describing the U.S. National AI Research Institutes will paint richer portraits!
