The Current State Of AI: One Man's Opinion

General Issues What is AI all about? In general, I see two possible answers to this question. First, AI can be seen as a modern methodological tool now being used in the ancient enterprise of the study of mind. It also usually means getting a machine to do what previously only humans have done before (rather than simply improving existing techniques). There are really only three reasons to "do" izI From the scientific point of view, you should do 2I because you are interested in the mind From the technological point of view, you should do AI because you The dispute between these formalists, and more intuitive researchers, has been referred to by me (elsewhere) as the neat/scruffy distinction.