This article feels like it came from some alternate universe where the history of AI is exactly the opposite of where it is in ours, and specifically where “The Bitter Lesson” [0] is not true. In our world, AI was stuck in a rut for decades because people kept trying to do exactly what this article suggests: incorporate modeling and how people think consciousness works. And then it broke out of that rut because everyone went fuck it and just threw huge data at the problem and told the machines to just pick the likeliest next token based on their training data.
All in all this reads like someone who is deeply stuck in their philosophy department and hasn’t seen anything that has happened in AI in the last fifteen years. The symbolic AI camp lost as badly as the Axis powers and this guy is like one of those Japanese holdouts who didn’t get the memo.
All in all this reads like someone who is deeply stuck in their philosophy department and hasn’t seen anything that has happened in AI in the last fifteen years. The symbolic AI camp lost as badly as the Axis powers and this guy is like one of those Japanese holdouts who didn’t get the memo.
[0]: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html