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Monday, September 04, 2006

The Skeptic features a rather skeptical account of the Artificial Intelligence research. After critically reviewing the history of AI research, Peter Kasson concludes
After more than 50 years of pursuing human- level artificial intelligence, we have nothing but promises and failures. The quest has become a degenerating research program (or actually, an ever-increasing number of competing ones), pursuing an ever-increasing number of irrelevant activities as the original goal recedes ever further into the future ? like the mirage it is.
I'm skeptical of the suggestion that we should give all hope of success after reading one short article in the Skeptic--even if the challenges he cites really are challenges and the footnotes are useful.

Skeptic: The Magazine:AI Gone Awry

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