How are you feeling today? Good, Great, fine, bad, worst, bored? Either way, you are feeling, you will agree that there is no one right answer to that question and many other millions of questions where multiple answers are correct. While you, as a human, would understand that for some questions there is no single right answer, it’s difficult to teach this to machines! This is one of the problems AI researchers are struggling with today, especially in the chatbot and virtual assistant space.

--Dr. Balaji Vasan Srinivasan-- In today’s digital world, social media and websites have become an important tool for communication. As digital communication is becoming more and more important, companies are looking forward to increase their user engagement to advertise their products, agenda or to just spread knowledge. One of the ways to increase user engagement is to provide them with multimodal content which is a combination of two or more modes of communication such as text, image, video, audio etc.

--Prof. Cynthia Rudin-- For quite a long time, researchers and the public were thrilled by the wonders of machine learning. However, over the period of time, the community realized that the machine learning models aren’t a magic wand and they are as best as the data provided to them during the training and development stage. As the world started making decisions based on AI, there were soon conflicts between human and machine intelligence and therefore the need for explainability of black-box models become apparent.