Why should money and effort be expended to, in particular, keep top AI talent in the USA? "AI" is just a name and in most usage today means "machine learning" a

Why should money and effort be expended to, in particular, keep top AI talent in the USA? "AI" is just a name and in most usage today means "machine learning" and especially "deep learning". Neither GOFAI nor machine learning are even halfway steps toward useful true artificial intelligence. Do not mistake a name ("AI") for the real thing (artificial intelligence). Meanwhile there are many, many ways other than AI to spend our dollars for both research and education: healthcare, energy, climate change, a more modern military, etc. We tend to treat the term "AI" as if the technology were already true artificial intelligence but it is little more than a set of pretty good recognition and classification algorithms. Investing billions in a teechology prematurely is always a mistake since it will divert those billions from other uses. But I see no technology remotely approaching the intelligence of a 6-year-old child even on the horizon today. Now I'm not saying that we couldn't use a zillion 6-year-olds (after all, Victorian England did so with their workhouse system) to do useful work, I'm just saying that "AI" (the poor version, not artificial intelligence) is very likely to become a financial sinkhole and cause possibly decades of lost effort if we get carried away by mistaking a term for the real thing: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MEETS NATURAL STUPIDITY Drew McDermoH MIT At Lab Cambridge, Mass 02139 https://homepage.univie.ac.at/nicole.rossmanith/concepts/papers/mcdermott1976artificial.pdf https://homepage.univie.ac.at/nicole.rossmanith/concepts/pap...