Insanely Complicated, Hopelessly Inadequate
Paul Taylor: AI, 21 January 2021
The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment
by Brian Cantwell Smith.
MIT, 157 pp., £20, October 2019,978 0 262 04304 5 Show More
by Brian Cantwell Smith.
MIT, 157 pp., £20, October 2019,
Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis.
Ballantine, 304 pp., £22.50, September 2019,978 1 5247 4825 8 Show More
by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis.
Ballantine, 304 pp., £22.50, September 2019,
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie.
Penguin, 418 pp., £10.99, May 2019,978 0 14 198241 0 Show More
by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie.
Penguin, 418 pp., £10.99, May 2019,
“... When I first studied artificial intelligence in the 1980s, my lecturers assumed that the most important property of intelligence was the ability to reason, and that to program a computer to perform intelligently you would have to enable it to apply logic to large bodies of facts. Logic is used to make inferences. If you have a general rule, such as ‘All men are mortal,’ and a specific fact, ‘Socrates is a man,’ you, or your computer, can deduce that Socrates is mortal ... ”
