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Unlocking the Potential of Global Human Expertise (2024)
Elliot Meyerson
,
Olivier Francon
, Darren Sargent,
Babak Hodjat
, and
Risto Miikkulainen
Solving societal problems on a global scale requires the collection and processing of ideas and methods from diverse sets of international experts. As the number and diversity of human experts increase, so does the likelihood that elements in this collective knowledge can be combined and refined to discover novel and better solutions. However, it is difficult to identify, combine, and refine complementary information in an increasingly large and diverse knowledge base. This paper argues that artificial intelligence (AI) can play a crucial role in this process. An evolutionary AI framework, termed RHEA, fills this role by distilling knowledge from diverse models created by human experts into equivalent neural networks, which are then recombined and refined in a population-based search. The framework was implemented in a formal synthetic domain, demonstrating that it is transparent and systematic. It was then applied to the results of the XPRIZE Pandemic Response Challenge, in which over 100 teams of experts across 23 countries submitted models based on diverse methodologies to predict COVID-19 cases and suggest non-pharmaceutical intervention policies for 235 nations, states, and regions across the globe. Building upon this expert knowledge, by recombining and refining the 169 resulting policy suggestion models, RHEA discovered a broader and more effective set of policies than either AI or human experts alone, as evaluated based on real-world data. The results thus suggest that AI can play a crucial role in realizing the potential of human expertise in global problem-solving.
Citation:
In
Proceedings of the 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024)
, 2024.
Bibtex:
@inproceedings{meyerson:neurips24, title={Unlocking the Potential of Global Human Expertise}, author={Elliot Meyerson and Olivier Francon and Darren Sargent and Babak Hodjat and Risto Miikkulainen}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024)}, month={ }, url="http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/?meyerson:neurips24", year={2024} }
People
Olivier Francon
Collaborator
olivier francon [at] cognizant com
Babak Hodjat
Collaborator
babak [at] cognizant com
Elliot Meyerson
Ph.D. Alumni
ekm [at] cs utexas edu
Risto Miikkulainen
Faculty
risto [at] cs utexas edu
Areas of Interest
Evolutionary Computation
Neuroevolution
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