NATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
AI Problem Map by Data Type
Nguyen Quoc Thai
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What Is AI and What Are Its Goals?
AI (practical definition): systems that can perceive, understand/reason, plan/decide, and sometimes act
Three goal layers
Capability: Perception → Reasoning →
Planning → Action
Engineering: quality, generalization,
trust, efficiency
Product: automation, productivity,
personalization, new capabilities
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AI Across Data Types
Each data type shapes what “understanding” means:
Text: meaning, intent, facts, structure
Image: objects, scenes, documents
Audio: speech + speaker + acoustic cues
Video: events over time
(spatiotemporal)
Tabular: feature-driven prediction with
business constraints
Graph/3D/Robotics: relations, space,
interaction, control
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Text (NLP) - Core Task
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Text (NLP) - Current Trends
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Image (Vision) - Core Task
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Image (Vision) - Current Trends
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Audio/Speech - Core Task
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Audio/Speech - Current Trends
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Video - Core Task
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Video - Current Trends
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Tabular/Tables - Core Task
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Tabular/Tables - Current Trends
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Graph AI: Core Tasks & Current Trends
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From Core Task to Real-World Use Cases
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My Current Research Directions
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Conclusion
No Wrong Choices, Only Right Fits
A practical recommendation: begin with a small personal project
Nguyen Quoc Thai - quocthai@[Link]