The Paradox of AI AI is concerned with automating both mundane and expert tasks. Paradoxically, mundane tasks are hardest to automate, and expert tasks are the easiest to automate. AI research is being impeded somehow. Some Prevailing Folk Beliefs Intelligent behaviour is determined by processing carried out by an individual brain. Thinking is a deductive procedure executed by a symbol-processing brain.
Intelligence involves puzzle solving.
The environment is a source of puzzles. Evolution and learning are seen as design processes for producing fit or improved individuals rather than the outworking of an ongoing physical process. Have become articulated in Classical thought, Enlightenment, C19 economic thought, etc. An extreme form is found in science fiction and writings by Hans Moravec and Frank Tipler. People do not rely on deduction in their everyday thinking.