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Borrible 5y ago
To make a long story short, you may find it all here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intelligence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intell...
erikpukinskis 5y ago
Which part of it needs clarification? “Snake oil” is a product that is sold on false promises. The author suggested much of AI has been snake oil historically. They also suggest that the way intelligence was created (natural selection, AKA the “blind watchmaker”) may be the fastest way to do it. And that trying to do it again, in computers, might also take a billion years because the problem is just that hard. But hopefully it is faster than that.
- Borrible 5y ago
  Not exactly. The not-teleological process of evolution needed billions of years to bring forth human intelligence. Human intelligence is likely to produce artificial intelligence much more quickly, if that is possible at all. Which is likely. Which is partly a matter of the semantics of the term. Whose fuzziness is the root of a smorgasbord of wishful thinking since 1956. Whenever AI came up against seemingly insurmountable difficulties, they just changed its definition. It is quite funny to read for example books from philosophers with some interest in artificial intelligence from the 80s/90s like say Paul Churchland. (The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain, MIT Press, 1995) The anecdotes are worth their weight in gold. Especially because they show what was considered artificial intelligence back than in contrast to today. What human intelligence produces as artificial intelligence will resemble human intelligence in function, but not necessarily in form. Just as nature has brought forth flying differently than man. Or as Prof.Dr. Katharina Morik, TU Dortmund, Germany once put it on a meetup I attended: "AI is when a machine does something that looks like only humans can do. Artificial intelligence is open as a terminology to accommodate the phenomenon of shifting capability." You may notice the strong, let me put it mildly, ironic component in her description. I am only a little more vicious in my judgment.

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To make a long story short, you may find it all here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intelligence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intell...

erikpukinskis 5y ago

Which part of it needs clarification? “Snake oil” is a product that is sold on false promises. The author suggested much of AI has been snake oil historically. They also suggest that the way intelligence was created (natural selection, AKA the “blind watchmaker”) may be the fastest way to do it. And that trying to do it again, in computers, might also take a billion years because the problem is just that hard. But hopefully it is faster than that.

Borrible 5y ago
Not exactly. The not-teleological process of evolution needed billions of years to bring forth human intelligence. Human intelligence is likely to produce artificial intelligence much more quickly, if that is possible at all. Which is likely. Which is partly a matter of the semantics of the term. Whose fuzziness is the root of a smorgasbord of wishful thinking since 1956. Whenever AI came up against seemingly insurmountable difficulties, they just changed its definition. It is quite funny to read for example books from philosophers with some interest in artificial intelligence from the 80s/90s like say Paul Churchland. (The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain, MIT Press, 1995) The anecdotes are worth their weight in gold. Especially because they show what was considered artificial intelligence back than in contrast to today. What human intelligence produces as artificial intelligence will resemble human intelligence in function, but not necessarily in form. Just as nature has brought forth flying differently than man. Or as Prof.Dr. Katharina Morik, TU Dortmund, Germany once put it on a meetup I attended: "AI is when a machine does something that looks like only humans can do. Artificial intelligence is open as a terminology to accommodate the phenomenon of shifting capability." You may notice the strong, let me put it mildly, ironic component in her description. I am only a little more vicious in my judgment.