Artificial Intelligence Is an Aspiration not a Science

When explaining artificial intelligence (AI) to your 9-year old you find out very quickly that AI is much more of a concept we aspire to one day achieve than it is a scientific discipline. Yes, there have been incredible advancements in individual fields such as deep learning that have changed the economics of entire industries, but these are always based on the chaining together of multiple learning models. Cleverly and efficiently connecting these models through hardcoded rules has had transformational impact in the marketplace, but it did not bring us much closer to actual AI. The chart shows Christopher Manning's compositional reasoning model making sense of the real world. This is the actual beginning of true AI and worth a read.