The problem with creating artificial intelligence is that we don't understand how real intelligence works. Noone on the planet can explain the process by which I am able to figure out that a second cookie sheet placed under the first in the oven will keep the bottom of my cookies from burning. How can an artificial copy of that process be created when the original is not understood?
This lack of understanding of the human mind is evident in psychology. There are different camps within the profession that have conflicting theories on why they occurr. Until very recently, the Freudians were telling parents of autistic kids that autism was a reaction to cold, uncaring parents! The biochemical effects of antibiotics on bacteria are well known; prozac just works.
Until we figure out what intelligence is, and how it works, AI may prove to be the alchemy of our time.
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This lack of understanding of the human mind is evident in psychology. There are different camps within the profession that have conflicting theories on why they occurr. Until very recently, the Freudians were telling parents of autistic kids that autism was a reaction to cold, uncaring parents! The biochemical effects of antibiotics on bacteria are well known; prozac just works.
Until we figure out what intelligence is, and how it works, AI may prove to be the alchemy of our time.