Neuroscientist Gary Marcus wrote a good (and for the New Yorker, fairly short) piece called “Why Can’t My Computer Understand Me?” The problem: your computer doesn’t think like a person. Its logic has serious limits.
A short, clear, pointed opinion piece on the same subject by Andrew McAfee is at the Harvard Business Review: “The Last Thing We Want is Real Artificial Intelligence.”
In it you learn what Winograd Schemas are and why AI is really, reallly bad at puzzling them out. Which means something. A lot, actually.
Apologies for the lack of content around here this summer. I’ve been taking a break from blogging because second book is in final phases of preparation. And hey—it relates to artificial intelligence, computers, the internet, and the future. It is a dystopian fairy tale with a title that came from my niece Brynn’s linear algebra notebook:
WARNING: SOMETHING ELSE IS HAPPENING.
Filed under: The writing life Tagged: artificial intelligence, computers, robts, Winograd schemas
