Artificial Intelligence: Arrogance or Ignorance?

Holmes, Neville (2003) Artificial Intelligence: Arrogance or Ignorance? Computer, 36 (11). 120, 118-119. ISSN 0018-9162

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2003.1244544

Abstract

This essay contrasts the difference between human intelligence and what the computing profession unfortunately calls AI or artificial intelligence. The argument made is that there is only superficial similarity and that human intelligence is inherently unlike anything a digital computer can manage.

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Additional Information:	A more formal version of this essay was published as essay 4.5 in the author's book "Computers and People" (Wiley, 2006). This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. Copyright 2003 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.
Keywords:	human intelligence, artificial intelligence, frames of mind, algoristics, cognition
Subjects:	320000 Medical and Health Sciences > 320700 Neurosciences > 320702 Central Nervous System 380000 Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences > 380300 Cognitive Science > 380301 Philosophy of Cognition 280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences > 280200 Artificial Intelligence and Signal and Image Processing
ID Code:	1525
Deposited By:	Mr Neville Holmes
Deposited On:	07 Aug 2007
Last Modified:	09 Jan 2008 02:30
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