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You can add Sir Geoffrey Hinton to the list of so-called AI experts who have made some ridiculous claims about what AI could do (most notoriously stating in 2016 that Radiologists would be effectively redundant within 5 years) .. and continues to make them. But now on daytime talk shows rather than at scientific meetings. Draw your own conclusions. It all adds to the general hype and misunderstanding which, as we have seen lately, can percolate all the way up to the top tiers of government.
AI can be very impressive in certain situations, but it can also be incredibly dumb too. Just have a look at the laughable example included in Gary Marcus’s post from yesterday. Would you trust it to make decisions autonomously in safety-critical situations? The assumption that intelligence is fundamentally about rules and logic was, and still is, incredibly naïve.