Erik Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard 2021), explains the immense power using inductive logic on Big Data gave to Big Tech firms. Did Alan Turing's change of heart set AI on the wrong path? Erik Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, thinks Turing lost track of one really important way minds differ from machines. Much interaction between humans requires us to understand what is being said and it is not clear, Larson says, how to give AI that capability. Why Big Data can be the enemy of new ideas.

In "Hyping Artificial Intelligence Hinders Innovation" (podcast episode 163), Andrew McDiarmid interviewed Erik J. Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do (2021) (Harvard University Press, 2021) on the way "Machines will RULE!" Erik Larson has founded two two DARPA-funded artificial intelligence startups. Inthe book he urges us to go back to the drawing board with AI research and development. This portion begins at 01:59 min. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow.