I read recently in The Atlantic Monthly that artificial intelligence firms are hiring and paying big salaries to philosophers to help them think through the issues facing the developers of AI.
They can send me a check, but I’ll give them some advice for free.
Limitations little discussed
First, anybody doing anything with the internet or artificial intelligence should read and discuss Hubert Dreyfus’s book On the Internet and Ragnar Fjelland’s article “Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized”.
Why those two? It is not, as one might assume, because either man is an “AI skeptic” or because either man warns against the dangers of AI. There are plenty of warnings from others. No, these works are useful because they describe in cogent ways the limitations of AI—limitations that will persist no matter how the technology develops.
What limitations would those be?
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