Woozle, I agree with your sentiments, but I think there’s an even more important question that needs to be asked. Perhaps it’s another way of stating your ‘roadmap’ question.
What do we mean by ‘intelligence’? Science emphasizes the importance of producing clear, functional definitions of terms before any work should be attempted—because that’s what’s needed to make progress. Where are our clear definitions of the focal concept? What precisely are we trying to accomplish?
The field has never managed to explicitly state precisely what it’s trying to produce… and rather unsurprisingly it’s never managed to accomplish a great deal, except for specific programs that set specific goals.
Artificial stupidity, in the sense of systems that specialize in simple, definable behaviors and goals, will almost certainly be much earlier than AI, but relatively few people are working on it.
Woozle, I agree with your sentiments, but I think there’s an even more important question that needs to be asked. Perhaps it’s another way of stating your ‘roadmap’ question.
What do we mean by ‘intelligence’? Science emphasizes the importance of producing clear, functional definitions of terms before any work should be attempted—because that’s what’s needed to make progress. Where are our clear definitions of the focal concept? What precisely are we trying to accomplish?
The field has never managed to explicitly state precisely what it’s trying to produce… and rather unsurprisingly it’s never managed to accomplish a great deal, except for specific programs that set specific goals.
Artificial stupidity, in the sense of systems that specialize in simple, definable behaviors and goals, will almost certainly be much earlier than AI, but relatively few people are working on it.