Putting AI in itsPlace

Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center 

AI aims to get computers to do what humans can do:
To reason, plan, exhibit goal oriented actions,
all enabled by processing images, speech and language
for pattern recognition.
Computer 'Learning' (CL) algorithms do this?

But other disciplines occupied these research/knowledge
territories long before and AI-CL lacks their expertise.

We will:
deconstruct some of the hype (e.g.computer not machine);
demonstrate the vast gulf between human capabilities and computers;
exemplify the articulation of the real expertises;
and argue that anthropomorphic language is dangerous and we must stop using it.
What is left are some promising tools;
but which cannot function reliably without human guidance.

skeptical AI

anthropomorphic

intelligence gulf