AI and the Future of Skills, Volume 1
Capabilities and Assessments
Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are major breakthrough technologies that are transforming the economy and society. The OECD’s Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Skills (AIFS) project is developing a programme to assess the capabilities of AI and robotics, and their impact on education and work.
This volume reports on the first step of the project: identifying which capabilities to assess and which tests to use in the assessment. It builds on an online expert workshop that explored this question from the perspectives of both psychology and computer science. The volume consists of expert contributions that review skills taxonomies and tests in different domains of psychology, and efforts in computer science to assess AI and robotics. It provides extensive discussion on the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, and outlines directions for the project. The report can therefore be a resource for the research community of multiple fields and policy makers who wish to obtain deeper insight into the complexity of machine capabilities.
Common sense skills: Artificial intelligence and the workplace
This chapter looks at the basic “common sense” skills needed by artificial intelligence (AI) to perform in the workplace. It begins by focusing on the challenge for AI of navigating in complex and unpredictable environments. It explores the common sense skills underpinning these apparently sophisticated skills, including spatial memory, object representation and causal reasoning. The chapter continues with an exploration of social challenges of the workplace, including the need to predict or infer meaning from ambiguous behaviour and the “common sense” skills underpinning these. Finally, it looks at the challenges, opportunities and next steps related to testing AI with tasks from psychology.
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