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MUHAI
Meaning and Understanding in Human-centric AI
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October 1, 2020 – March 31, 2025
come to grips with meaning and understanding. Meanings are distinctions (categories) that are relevant for prediction,
classification, communication, problem solving or other mental tasks. The meanings of an experience include
what events, actors and entities play a role, the temporal, spatial and causal relations between events, intentions
and motivations of the actors, and values that implicitly underly their behaviour. Understanding is the process of
reconstructing these meanings and organizing them in terms of a coherent narrative that explains a new experience by
linking it into a Personal Dynamic Memory.
The MUHAI project will advance our ability to capture more of the rich and complex understanding that humans
are capable of. It critically relies on enormous recent advances in technical AI components (such as deep learning
networks) and semantic resources (such as knowledge graphs). In addition, the project will build novel components,
such as: mental simulation of actions using gamified virtual environments and a powerful context mechanism to deal
with the complexity of accessing, expanding and managing a very big dynamic memory (> 10-100 billion of facts).
All these components will be assembled in a library called CANV AS, made available through the AI4EU AI-on-
demand platform.
The technical advances of the project will be developed and systematically tested in two challenging human-centric
case studies emphasizing AI for the common good: (i) learning and using common sense every day knowledge on how
to do things, in order to enhance well-being and empower common human activities, and (ii) learning about society
through AI-supported analysis of historical sources and contemporary digital media streams, in order to understand
social phenomena, specifically the origins and persistence of inequality in our society.
