I’ve a minor in psych so I like to think I have a bit of a non-techy perspective on this, and what’s being pushed now, forms just a segment of the overall topic

I’ve a minor in psych so I like to think I have a bit of a non-techy perspective on this, and what’s being pushed now, forms just a segment of the overall topic of AI. It just so happens to be the segment that benefits from the technology we suddenly have a rapid increase in. There’s been great successes in areas where a degree of inference is required but this hardly qualifies as even mere intelligence, and in cases where neural nets have been deployed in more human centered tasks, or even well designed symbolic systems the results speak for themselves. What even is intelligence? I think we’re going backwards because we’re investing all this talent in this simple segment I fear largely to fatten the chip makers share price while neglecting tried and true approaches that deliver far better results but perhaps crucially have a higher operating cost … who remembers google of 2010 from whom the Internet in all her glory leapt forth, or iPhone spell check of 2015 where you could confidently batter out your messages with little fear it would make a fool of you; you’re not going to nurture a nascent intelligence if you’re going to be continually hobbling it for business reasons. I’m certain we will get there eventually if we don’t destroy ourselves before then but I don’t think the current trends portray a picture of how it will be. I think we have a long way to go ourselves before we can be worthy of creating our successor, but when/if it comes it will be a beautiful thing and we will embrace it as we would our own child.