An overview of computational intelligence (AI) paradigms focusing on their practical applications, the joy of programming in metaphors (birds, bees, ants etc). I'll introduce each paradigm in {neural networks, fuzzy systems, artificial immune systems, swarm intelligence and evolutionary computation} but focus on swarm intelligence and go through examples, like, simple data clustering using ants.

1. The Birds &
The Bees
Simon van Dyk @ Platform45

2. A friend of mine once asked me
what my research was based on, and
I said, “artificial intelligence”, only to
receive back a flurry of laughter
since she associated the words
“artificial intelligence” with aliens.
“
”
– Melissa Donaldson

3. AI is
misunderstood…
…so is CI.

4. > defined? CI
=> nil
… where does it fit in?

5. AI
Strong
AI
Weak
AI
“General”“Specific”
New era AI Old era AI
“CI” “Brute Force”

6. EC
SI
NN
AIS
FS
Evolutionary Computation
Swarm Intelligence
Fuzzy Systems
Neural Networks
Artificial Immune Systems
CI

7. EC
SI
NNAIS
FS
Probability

8. Swarm
Intelligence

9. Swallows
flock

10. Ants
build

11. Ants
survive

12. Emergence
complexity from
simplicity

13. Communication
on some channel

14. Ants for data
clustering

15. Cemetery Formation
1
2
3
4

16. Data Clustering
4 128 97
dataset = [d1..d2]
cluster = dataset.select do |d|
d.is_similar_to(cluster.centroid)
end
too large
don’t know this

17. The Models
User 123
!
data:
interests: {
music: [],
sport: [],
food: [],
tech: [],
}
behaviour:
similar()
!
...

18. The Models
Ant 456
!
behaviour:
perceive()
act()
move()
!
...

19. The Algorithm

20. The Ant

21. The Ant
The Item

22. The Result!

23. ‘Picks’
7min
npr.org
“how ants bury their dead”
!
2min
http://indianapublicmedia.org
“ants and their dead”

24. Thank you!
@siefi
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sighmin/birds-and-bees
!
simon@platform45.com
!!
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25. Questions?
@siefi
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sighmin/birds-and-bees
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simon@platform45.com
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26. fin.