According to a recent news report in The Boston Globe,
there is a research effort beginning at MIT, aimed at coming up with some of the more human elements that have, up till now, been missing from AI projects (h/t Walter).
So here is my prediction. This project will fail. The project may come up with a lot that is interesting and perhaps valuable. It may be deemed to have been worth the cost. But I expect that it will fail to achieve the stated goal. In a way, this is an easy prediction. Thus far, AI research has a 100% perfect record of failure, when it comes to producing something that looks like human intelligence.
From the report:
At a new center based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, researchers will seek to craft intelligence that includes not just knowledge but also an infant’s ability to intuit basic concepts of psychology or physics.
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