On educating machines
This work addresses the lack of cohesion in machine education research, but it is incremental as it primarily reviews and organizes existing literature.
The authors tackled the problem of organizing the nascent field of machine education, which is the inverse of machine learning, by synthesizing scattered literature into key research directions to advance it towards a standalone field.
Machine education is an emerging research field that focuses on the problem which is inverse to machine learning. To date, the literature on educating machines is still in its infancy. A fairly low number of methodology and method papers are scattered throughout various formal and informal publication avenues, mainly because the field is not yet well coalesced (with no well established discussion forums or investigation pathways), but also due to the breadth of its potential ramifications and research directions. In this study we bring together the existing literature and organise the discussion into a small number of research directions (out of many) which are to date sufficiently explored to form a minimal critical mass that can push the machine education concept further towards a standalone research field status.