The Holy Grail of Artificial Intelligence

Mind Matters - A podcast by Discovery Institute Center on Natural and Artificial Intelligence - Thursdays

Gary N. Smith and Robert J. Marks continue their discussion of IBM’s Watson and its grim future in health and medicine. The problem, they say, is that Watson amounts to a real world instance of John Searle’s “Chinese Room”. Computers don’t understand Chinese, English, or numbers for that matter. With reference to many of the leading thinkers in AI research,… Source