There are some interesting points made about incentives to keep AI mysterious here, and around the fact that our language enables conceptions of AI as mystical.

There are some interesting points made about incentives to keep AI mysterious here, and around the fact that our language enables conceptions of AI as mystical. However, if you get a neuroanatomist and a computer scientist who specializes in AI in the same room and let them talk to each other for a bit, you’ll see that we broadly understand AI: both its components and its emergent features. This doesn’t mean we know everything and no more research is needed, but the idea that we don’t understand this stuff is BS propagated by people who don’t understand the theory in both domains of science. The most misleading voices seem to come, very often, from authoritative experts who only understand one field and not the other. And yes, more research is always needed. We’re still not done doing research on how water works, ffs. We probably never will be. But we understand water to a very large degree.