On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Richard E. Neapolitan < [email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues, > One of my publisher's asked me to review a proposal for a book. The theme > of the book is predicated on the statement that "it is widely believed > that in the next 10 to 100 years scientists will succeed in creating > human level artificial general intelligence." There is no research that > gives me any reason to believe this. In my recent AI textbook I took the > stance that we have essentially failed at this endeavor. Does anyone know > of any research that would make someone make such a statement? > Thanks, > Rich > > -- > > Isn't extrapolating the work of the "grandfathers" of AGI: http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/ http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/ a comparable number of years into the future, when integrated into a principled cognitive architecture, convincing enough? Either we will have human-level AI, or we will learn something very surprising about cognition.
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