{"id":15672,"date":"2012-02-06T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15672"},"modified":"2012-02-06T11:38:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T18:38:55","slug":"debunking-artificial-intelligence-while-programming-your-computer-to-be-almost-as-smart-as-your-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15672\/debunking-artificial-intelligence-while-programming-your-computer-to-be-almost-as-smart-as-your-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Debunking Artificial Intelligence — while programming your computer to be almost as smart as your dog."},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything you’ve been taught about Artificial Intelligence for your whole life is false. AI researchers are not frauds, I don’t think, but they’re exuberant when they talk to reporters, and the reporters are ignorant, thoughtless and brash. In real life, AI is Siri, which can reliably lead you to the nearest closed-down super-market. In your imagination, AI is C-3PO, who can lecture you on Chinese lithography while clobbering you at backgammon.<\/p>\n

This is the truth — and telling the truth about AI is as rash as telling the truth about Anthropogenic Global Warming or abortion, an incitation to a frothy wrath: There is no Artificial Intelligence anywhere — nor will there be any time soon, if ever. This is a case where new theory really is required. The theories currently being deployed in AI research will produce ever-more-competent Siris — which achievements will be hailed as “proof” of Artificial Intelligence — but they will never produce any actual intelligence.<\/p>\n

Why? Ontology and teleology, of course.<\/p>\n

AI fails because it is not actually attempting to model intelligence but simply to mimic the effects of intelligence. In this respect, AI is a cargo cult<\/a>, and its argument of “proof” is the same as that of any cargo cult: Post hoc, ergo propter hoc<\/em> — after<\/em> this, therefore because<\/em> of this. If the destination turned out to be a super-market, even if it’s a bankrupt super-market, then Siri is “intelligent.”<\/p>\n

Just that much is an error of identification. When you play chess against your iPhone, this is not “man versus machine,” it’s you versus a team of programmers — and they’re cheating, which is how they win. If you could pop out to do 50,000 pre-programmed calculations per move, you’d kick their program’s ass.<\/p>\n

It is that error of identification that produces all the absurd AI claims in the popular media: Someone is doing something differently! It must be a miracle! So far, there is nothing in AI that cannot be adequately explained as human ratiocination. The fact that software is written in advance does not mean that the process is driven by anything other than human intelligence. The Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everything you’ve been taught about Artificial Intelligence for your whole life is false. AI researchers are not frauds, I don’t think, but they’re exuberant when they talk to reporters, and the reporters are ignorant, thoughtless and brash. In real life, AI is Siri, which can reliably lead you to the nearest closed-down super-market. 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