Council Post: Reflecting On The Cost Of Our Dream To Build The Coveted General AI

It is a long-standing joke among the industry experts that while AI may crunch massive amounts of data, write codes that run huge machinery or even author a book, it would still fail tasks that a three-year-old human child can accomplish. This is also why AI systems still have a long path to trace to be truly called'intelligent'. Hubert Dreyfus, a well-known philosopher, was one of the staunchest critics of overestimating computer/AI's capabilities. He wrote three books – Alchemy and AI, What Computers Can't Do, and Mind over Machine, where he critically assessed the progress of AI. One of his arguments was that humans learn from implied knowledge, and such capability cannot be incorporated into a machine.