Chapter 2: Diverse Perspectives on the Relationship between Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition
The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (ICPRAI 2018) brought together scholars to celebrate works on artificial intelligence and pattern recognition. In acknowledgment that two terms are closely related and are sometimes used interchangeably, a Competition was set up as part of the conference whereby attendees were invited to submit a response to the following question: What is the relation between Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition? This chapter includes the top three responses as judged by the ICPRAI 2018 Competition Committee. Barz argues that intelligence goes far beyond pattern recognition, while pattern recognition is an essential prerequisite for any intelligence, artificial or not. Mukherjee and Lall outlines the inter-related concepts in AI and PR and various potential use-cases. Lastly, Elham provides her perspective, which includes seeing pattern recognition as a starting point or a principle of discovery of artificial intelligence developments.