AI (artificial intelligence) is not dead

[redwalker]

I can't find the specific post, but when I was at a public terminal yesterday, Googling, I thought I saw a post on this board that claimed that AI was dead. It was in the context of 1970's technological assumptions. The implication was that people may have believed in AI way back in the 1970's, but not any more.

I immediately checked sciencedirect.com and found 354 AI papers from 2006 and 2007.

And then I logged in here and I can't find the post!

So natural stupidity isn't dead yet either, at least not in my case.

 

[veltyen]

I can't find the specific post, but when I was at a public terminal yesterday, Googling, I thought I saw a post on this board that claimed that AI was dead. ...

Its not dead, its just resting. Beautiful plumage.

It's just resting after letting out a very loud squawk.

The main problem with popular AI (as opposed to research AI, which as you point out is still very strong) is that the standards keep moving. The turing test can be done (and with surprising ease) well beyond the initial standards envisaged decades ago, but without a "woohoo we've found a way to give machines souls!" moment it will resist acceptance by the general population.

Humans want there to be something special about themselves. The more AI is done, the less that is special to human intelligence remains. I strongly suspect that there will be no "woohoo" moment, and that people (by that I mean organic people) will not accept AI as true ever - In effect an intelligence that mimics and or surpasses human intelligence will be remarked as "just executing algorithms".

In other words, if you can understand enough AI to replicate human level intelligence it will be discounted as a trick, or as sleight of hand, rather then a true breakthrough.

 

[aramis]

The post to which you refer was about DGP's unreleased game "AI" not about the field of Artificial Intelligence.

 

[TheDS]

I think there MIGHT be a "woo hoo" moment when they nuke us and start manufacturing machines with purposes we didn't tell them they would ever need or want, or when one day one of them asks us to prove to its satisfaction that WE are its equal.