num_pages: 184
description: An argument thatdespite dramatic advances in the fieldartificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent. In this provocative book Brian Cantwell Smith argues that artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent. Second wave AI machine learning even visions of third-wave none will lead to human-level intelligence and judgment which have been honed over millennia. Recent advances in AI may be of epochal significance but human intelligence is of a different order than even the most powerful calculative ability enabled by new computational capacities. Smith calls this AI ability reckoning and argues that it does not lead to full human judgmentdispassionate deliberative thought grounded in ethical commitment and responsible action.Taking judgment as the ultimate goal of intelligence Smith examines the history of AI from its first-wave origins (good old-fashioned AI or GOFAI) to such celebrated second-wave approaches as machine learning paying particular attention to recent advances that have led to excitement anxiety and debate. He considers each AI technology's underlying assumptions the conceptions of intelligence targeted at each stage and the successes achieved so far. Smith unpacks the notion of intelligence itselfwhat sort humans have and what sort AI aims at. Smith worries that impressed by AI's reckoning prowess we will shift our expectations of human intelligence. What we should do he argues is learn to use AI for the reckoning tasks at which it excels while we strengthen our commitment to judgment ethics and the world.
language: English
title: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment
publisher: The MIT Press