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That's AI? A History and Critique of the Field
by Latanya Sweeney.
Abstract
What many AI researchers do when they say they are doing AI
contradicts what some AI researchers say is AI. Surveys of leading
AI textbooks demonstrate a lack of a generally accepted historical
record. These surveys also show AI researchers as primarily
concerned with prescribing ideal mathematical behaviors into
computers -- accounting for 987 of 996 (or 99%) of the AI references
surveyed. The most common expectation of AI concerns constructing
machines that behave like humans, yet only 27 of 996, (or 2%) of the
AI references surveyed were directly consistent with this
description. Both approaches have shortcomings � prescribing
superior behavior into machines fails to scale to multiple tasks
easily, while on the other hand, modeling human behaviors in
machines can give results that are not always correct or fast. The
discrepancy between the kind of work conducted in AI and the kind of
work expected from AI cripples the ability to measure progress in
the field.
Citation:
Latanya Sweeney. That's AI? A History and Critique of the
Field. Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science,
Technical Report, CMU-CS-03-106. Pittsburgh: January 2003. (PDF).