Integrating Information Visualization and Dimensionality Reduction: A pathway to Bridge the Gap between Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

By importing some natural abilities from human thinking into the design of computerized decision support systems, a cross-cutting trend of intelligent systems has emerged, namely, the synergetic integration between natural and artificial intelligence. While natural intelligence provides creative, parallel, and holistic thinking, its artificial counterpart is logical, accurate, able to perform complex and extensive calculations, and tireless. In the light of such integration, two concepts are important: controllability and interpretability. The former is defined as the ability of computerized systems to receive feedback and follow users’ instructions, while the latter refers to human-machine communication. A suitable alternative to simultaneously involve these two concepts—and then bridging the gap between natural and artificial intelligence—is bringing together the fields of dimensionality reduction (DimRed) and information visualization (InfoVis).