Sandbagging AI Might Feint Being Dimwitted, Including For Autonomous Cars - AI Trends

Could AI become smart enough to pretend to be dimwitted, doing so to lull hapless humans into complacency while meanwhile, the AI is plotting to overtake humanity? Sounds like a farfetched science fiction movie. To be clear, AI is not yet akin to human intelligence and the odds are that we are a long way distant from the promise of such vaunted capabilities. Those touting the use of Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) are hoping that the advent of ML/DL might be a path toward full AI, though right now ML/DL is mainly a stew of computationally impressive pattern matching and we don't know if it will scale-up to anything approaching an equivalent of the human brain. The struggle and earnestness toward achieving full AI is nonetheless still a constant drumbeat of those steeped in AI and the belief is that we will eventually craft or invent a machine-based artificial intelligence made entirely out of software and hardware.