Looking at the Branches and Roots

When looking at the future of Fuzzy Logic (FL), it is immediate to think at applications where FL could be used to compute with perceptions, possibly expressed in natural language, thus enabling Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). Scholars in FL have been working on Interpretability, an important part of XAI, for decades. Yet, the research community in FL seems isolated from other Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities. There is a gap between FL and AI that due to the relative youth of FL when compared with the foundational theories underlying AI. If we want FL growing its branches in XAI as well as in other fields, we need to develop, both in Research and Education, more robust roots supporting all the theories, the methodologies and the technologies that are going to be developed now and in future.