Bengio is asked: What will be the next big thing in AI? > "Deep learning, as it is now, has made huge progress in perception, but it hasn’t delivered yet on sy

Bengio is asked: What will be the next big thing in AI? > "Deep learning, as it is now, has made huge progress in perception, but it hasn’t delivered yet on systems that can discover high-level representations — the kind of concepts we use in language. Humans are able to use those high-level concepts to generalize in powerful ways. That’s something that even babies can do, but machine learning is very bad at." I read this as: "We have super-advanced skip-logic software that can produce specific results when provided a large enough data set, but "intelligence" as it is defined, does not exist." AI is really just sophisticated software algorithms. In my opinion, there is no true artificial intelligence, and it will be unlikely that we will ever create such a thing for quite some time, if at all. AI is being used as a buzzword to garner attention. It seems much more likely that we will build a brain-computer interface before true AI, and it will prove more efficient than what we have today, which is effectively many computers churning through a super-long list of "if-then" statements.