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September 13th– GeoMachina: What Designing Artificial GIS Analysts Teaches Us About Place Representation
Krysztof Janowicz, Professor of Geoinformatics – University of Vienna
Questions surrounding the computational representation of place have been a cornerstone of GIS since its inception. During the rise of generative AI, it seemed for a moment that a breakthrough would be in sight, but, maybe unsurprisingly, things took a different turn. Much like declarative GeoAI approaches from the past two decades, representation learning encounters similar obstacles. This talk will report on the conceptual lessons learned in designing and benchmarking autonomous, artificial GIS analysts, provide a brief overview of place representation paradigms studied over the past 20 years, and discuss the potential of neuro-symbolic (hybrid) AI to advance our field.