siri and google assistant may be able to schedule meetings on request but so far they dont have the social understanding to independently prioritise the appointmentsaccording to researchers based in china artificial intelligence ai is smart but it is stunted by a lack of social skillsartificial intelligence has changed our society and our daily life first author lifeng fan from beijing institute for general artificial intelligence bigai saidwhat is the next important challenge for ai in the future we argue that artificial social intelligence asi is the next big frontier fan saidin a paper published in the caai artificial intelligence research the team explained that asi comprises multiple siloed subfields including social perception theory of mind the understanding that others think from their own point of view and social interactionby using cognitive science and computational modelling to identify the gap between ai systems and human social intelligence as well as current issues and future directions fan said the field will be better equipped to advanceasi is distinct and challenging compared to our physical understanding of the work it is highly contextdependent fan saidhere context could be as large as culture and common sense or as little as two friends shared experience this unique challenge prohibits standard algorithms from tackling asi problems in realworld environments which are frequently complex ambiguous dynamic stochastic partially observable and multiagentfan said that asi requires the ability to interpret latent social cues such as eyerolling or yawning to understand other agents mental states such as belief and intent and to cooperate in a shared taskaccording to fan the best approach is a more holistic one mimicking how humans interface with one another and the world around them this requires an openended and interactive environment as well as consideration for how to introduce better humanlike biases into asi modelsto accelerate the future progress of asi we recommend taking a more holistic approach just as humans do to utilise different learning methods such as lifelong learning multitask learning onefewshot learning metalearning etc fan saidwe need to define new problems create new environments and datasets set up new evaluation protocols and build new computational models the ultimate goal is to equip ai with highlevel asi and lift human wellbeing with the help of artificial social intelligencefacebooktwitterlinkedinend of article10910131298799128