Grady Booch on the Future of AI

According to Grady Booch, most current AI systems are about pattern matching of signals at the edge and inductive reasoning, not true Artificial Intelligence. During his second day keynote at the 2018 QCon San Francisco, "Building the Enchanted Land", he explained his view that AI today is a "system engineering problem with AI components." True AI uses decision making and abductive reasoning, which allows those systems to reason and learn. Current artificial intelligence applications are far from being able to accomplish that, they are just components in larger systems. Contemporary AI is not of recent origin either because many of the architectures and algorithms are decades old. The difference today is the abundance of computational power, and the existence of large bodies of tagged data.