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Saturday, December 18, 2004

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The AI Polemic

 

 

 

The greatest need is for there to be a popular science book titled,

 

"The AI Polemic, how our popular science misleads the American public".

 

Such a book could be written with a complete scholarly reference to the history of AI and connectionist paradigms. 

 

In an age of political polemics, the concept of being misled by institutions is something that "common" people are trying to understand. 

 

The argument could be laid out that AI and reductionism are born from the same worldview, and yet AI has adopted an extreme view of reductionism.

 

Alternatives to AI are Human-centric Information Production (HIP) and data mining / categorical abstraction mechanisms and algorithms that do not act as if silicon processors will eventually be self aware.  Ben Goertzel's position is an example of such a position, where the details of a theory can withstand examination.  Richard Ballard's position is that computational devices are now or soon will be self aware.

 

Jim Hendler's position is that we should honor his work and read what he has to say, as he alone, or those who agree with him, understands these things. 

 

The extreme AI view is protected from examination by a well developed polemic.  In the funding situation, specific individuals related to the strong AI camp exclude any funding proposal that might challenge the AI polemic, or to even suggest that there is a polemic. 

 

The nature of polemics would be developed as part of a scholarly examination of what is called memetics.

 

In the bead game, there are a few links that reference the AI polemic: