Top Artificial Intelligence system is as smart as a 4-year-old

Re:Top Artificial Intelligence system is as smart as a 4-yea... by EthanHeilman on Monday July 15, 2013 @11:35PM (#6049882)

AI, making absurd claims since 1956.

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Re:Top Artificial Intelligence system is as smart as a 4-yea... by dschiptsov on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @12:14AM (#6049994)

It is not AI, it is computerworld - very close to cosmopolitan.)

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Re:Top Artificial Intelligence system is as smart as a 4-yea... by tekromancr on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @02:48AM (#6050344)

Ah, yes. "Five ways to give your hard drive the best defraging ever!"

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Re:Top Artificial Intelligence system is as smart as a 4-yea... by EthanHeilman on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @11:51AM (#6052662)

AI has been saying things like this since it was founded.

1957 "there are now in the world machines that think, that learn, that create"

1961 "The processes of thinking can no longer be regarded as completely mysterious" in regards to the early General Problem Solver.

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The list goes on and on.

This isn't to say that AI research isn't important, wonderful, creates enormous value to society (relational databases anyone) and has inherent value in the quest for knowledge, but such absurd claims have hurt AI more than helped it (note that absurd claims in physics have not had the same negative effect). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

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