Why AI Might Never Be Intelligent (or Why It Already Is)

From 1960 to 2020, the field of AI has both seen tremendous sprints of progress and strenuous "AI winter" s. Headlines have always accompanied the many breakthroughs on how computers are becoming intelligent and will soon surpass humans, followed by pessimistic views on how limited the current technology is. Currently, the field is at its highest point ever, yet, no signs of a general form of intelligence have been achieved so far, neither has a conclusive definition of what intelligence is or consciousness should look like. For more than fifty years, the field has been chasing one of the most elusive target science has ever seen. For a long time, public opinion was that anything that could play chess well would be intelligent.