WCAIACI-26
Full Articles/ Reviews/ Shorts Papers/ Abstracts are welcomed in the following research fields:
AI applications are generally categorized by the industry they serve or the core technology they employ.
Healthcare:
Medical Imaging: Computer vision for detecting tumors in X-rays, MRIs, and CT scans.
Drug Discovery: Using deep learning to predict molecular interactions and accelerate vaccine development.
Personalized Medicine: Genomic analysis to tailor treatments to individual DNA.
Finance & Banking:
Fraud Detection: Real-time monitoring of transactions for anomalous patterns.
Algorithmic Trading: High-frequency trading based on predictive market models.
Credit Scoring: Using alternative data to assess loan eligibility for the "unbanked."
Transportation:
Autonomous Vehicles: Self-driving cars, trucks, and delivery drones.
Traffic Management: Smart city grids that optimize traffic light timing to reduce congestion.
Retail & E-commerce:
Recommendation Engines: "Customers who bought this also bought..." algorithms.
Dynamic Pricing: Adjusting prices in real-time based on demand, inventory, and competitor data.
Natural Language Processing (NLP): Virtual assistants (Siri, Alexa), real-time translation, and sentiment analysis.
Computer Vision: Facial recognition for security, gesture control, and industrial quality inspection.
Generative AI: Automated content creation (text, images, video, and music composition).
Technical and ethical hurdles remain significant barriers to the safe and effective deployment of AI.
The "Black Box" Problem (Explainability): The difficulty in understanding how deep learning models reach specific conclusions.
Data Quality & Scarcity: AI requires massive, clean, and representative datasets; "garbage in, garbage out" remains a core issue.
Computing Power & Energy: The high environmental cost and hardware requirements (GPUs/TPUs) for training large-scale models.
AI Integration: The struggle to merge modern AI tools with legacy software systems in established corporations.
Algorithmic Bias: Systems inheriting human prejudices from historical data (e.g., in hiring or law enforcement).
Privacy & Surveillance: The tension between data-driven insights and the right to individual anonymity.
Liability & Accountability: Determining who is responsible (the developer, the owner, or the machine) when an AI makes a mistake.
Intellectual Property: Legal disputes over whether AI-generated works can be copyrighted or if training data violates fair use.
The widespread adoption of AI is fundamentally reshaping how society functions.
Job Displacement vs. Augmentation: The replacement of routine manual and cognitive tasks (automation) versus the creation of new AI-centric roles.
Productivity Gains: Significant increases in GDP through optimized supply chains and faster R&D.
Wealth Inequality: The concern that AI benefits may accrue primarily to large tech firms and capital owners, widening the gap between socioeconomic classes.
Deepfakes & Misinformation: The erosion of public trust due to hyper-realistic fake images, audio, and video.
Human-Robot Interaction: The growth of "socially assistive robots" for elderly care and its effect on human social dynamics.
Democratization of Knowledge: High-level expertise becoming available to anyone with an internet connection via AI tutors and diagnostic tools.