Last month Google’s AI research group published an academic paper in which they set out to define artificial general intelligence. I summarise this paper and provide my own commentary.
AI Needs to be Unmasked or we will Create a Bubble
Are we in an AI bubble? With the spending that’s going on and with the way AI products are being sold to us, yes, I believe we are. Hence, AI needs to be unmasked for what it is and what it can and can’t do.
No Silver Bullet for AI and Programming
A lot of people have been asking whether in this age of advanced AI it is still worth learning to code. I look back at a seminal essay written in the 80s to answer this question.
AI and Sensationalist Media Reporting
AI is over-hyped. And the media are fuelling this hype with trashy, inaccurate reporting. It’s all fun and games until somebody gets hurt.
The West Fears AI, the East Does Not
What is the attitude to AI in the East? Our western culture has a vastly different culture. Perhaps our fear of AI is not matched elsewhere.
Deep Learning Eliminated Creativity in AI
Deep Learning revolutionised AI and Computer Vision but, as I argue in this post, at the cost of sacrificing the need for creativity in finding solutions to problems.
AI Will Never Create High Art
The advances of AI have been truly incredible. AI has encroached on nearly aspect of our lives and it is now trying to venture into the world of high art (something to be distinguished from pop/commercial art). In this post I talk about why AI has no place in this world whatsoever. I also ask why the merging of AI and high art is even being discussed.
The Need for New Terminology in AI
There is a fundamental difference between humans and machines. Most people would agree with this. Hence, maybe we should not use terms like “intelligence”, “understanding”, and “creating” for machines as we do for humans. Terms like these (and others) are loaded and imply something profound in the existence of an entity that is said to be or do those things.
Artificial Intelligence is Over-Hyped
AI is not only fundamentally unintelligent but at the moment it is fundamentally over-hyped.
Artificial Intelligence is Slowing Down – Part 2
I present an academic paper here to continue my discussion and analysis that AI is slowing down despite the hype surrounding it.