The Myth of Artificial Intelligence
151 Citations•2021•
Erik J. Larson
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence offers a technical and philosophical introduction to AI with an emphasis on AI's limitations, and disentangles the hype of AI from what is actually possible with current technology.
Abstract
Futurists are certain that humanlike AI is on the horizon, but in fact engineers have no idea how to program human reasoning. AI reasons from statistical correlations across data sets, while common sense is based heavily on conjecture. Erik Larson argues that hyping existing methods will only hold us back from developing truly humanlike AI.