num_pages: 336
description: Why a new approach is needed in the quest for general artificial intelligence. Since the inception of artificial intelligence we have been warned about the imminent arrival of computational systems that can replicate human thought processes. Before we know it computers will become so intelligent that humans will be lucky to kept as pets. And yet although artificial intelligence has become increasingly sophisticatedwith such achievements as driverless cars and humanless chess-playingcomputer science has not yet created general artificial intelligence. In Algorithms Are Not Enough  Herbert Roitblat explains how artificial general intelligence may be possible and why a robopocalypse is neither imminent nor likely. Existing artificial intelligence Roitblat shows has been limited to solving path problems in which the entire problem consists of navigating a path of choicesfinding specific solutions to well-structured problems. Human problem-solving on the other hand includes problems that consist of ill-structured situations including the design of problem-solving paths themselves. These are insight problems and insight is an essential part of intelligence that has not been addressed by computer science. Roitblat draws on cognitive science including psychology philosophy and history to identify the essential features of intelligence needed to achieve general artificial intelligence.Roitblat describes current computational approaches to intelligence including the Turing Test machine learning and neural networks. He identifies building blocks of natural intelligence including perception analogy ambiguity common sense and creativity. General intelligence can create new representations to solve new problems but current computational intelligence cannot. The human brain like the computer uses algorithms; but general intelligence he argues is more than algorithmic processes.
language: English
title: Algorithms Are Not Enough: Creating General Artificial Intelligence
publisher: The MIT Press