The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
By: Erik J. Larson
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A cutting-edge AI researcher and tech entrepreneur debunks the fantasy that superintelligence is ju…
Want to Read $ 9.99"This cuts the myth at an awkward angle: it is because the [artificial intelligence] systems are idiots, but still find their way into business, consumer, and government application, that human-value questions are now infecting what were once purely scientific values."-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
"This cuts the myth at an awkward angle: it is because the [artificial intelligence] systems are idiots, but still find their way into business, consumer, and government application, that human-value questions are now infecting what were once purely scientific values."-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
"Notice that the story [of technical progress accelerating indefinitely] is not testable; we just have to wait around and see. If the predicted year of true AI's coming is false, too, another one can be forecast, a few decades into the future. AI in this sense is unfalsifiable and thus--according to the accepted rules of the scientific method--unscientific."-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
"Notice that the story [of technical progress accelerating indefinitely] is not testable; we just have to wait around and see. If the predicted year of true AI's coming is false, too, another one can be forecast, a few decades into the future. AI in this sense is unfalsifiable and thus--according to the accepted rules of the scientific method--unscientific."-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
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