The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do: 320 pages
Author : Erik J. Larson
Language : English
1) Book Description
AI works on inductive reasoning, crunching data sets to predict outcomes. But humans don’t correlate data sets. We make conjectures, informed by context and experience. Human intelligence is a web of best guesses. And we haven’t a clue how to program that kind of intuitive reasoning, which lies at the heart of common sense. Futurists insist AI will soon eclipse the capacities of the most gifted human mind, but Larson shows we aren’t really on the path to developing superintelligent machines. In fact, we don’t even know where that path might be.
2) About Author
Erik J. Larson is a computer scientist and tech entrepreneur. The founder of two DARPA-funded AI startups, he is currently working on core issues in natural language processing and machine learning. He has written for The Atlantic and for professional journals and has tested the technical boundaries of artificial intelligence through his work with the IC2 tech incubator at the University of Texas at Austin.