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Article: 'Emperor AI, where is your new mind?' (artificial intelligence)(Natural Language Processing)
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- AI Magazine
- Article date:
- December 22, 1997
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Is AI dead as a science for investigating the nature of intelligence, or as suggested by Penrose (1989), is the emperor's mind actually hollow? Should AI be used simply to superficially describe those studies that produce intelligent programs? Several indicators suggest that the answer to these questions might be yes. These indicators include beliefs that (1) the field has made limited or little progress to date, and worse, interests in these questions among AI researchers are on the wane or nonexisting; (2) the serious criticisms from those who champion the study of human mind and behavior have cast a strong doubt on the possibility of an AI theory of the mind; and (3) ...