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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Artificial Intelligence Is Back, Or Not.

Last year John Markoff of the NYT wrote about the rapid advance of Artificial Intelligence.  This year, the New Yorker's Gary Marcus suggests that it's all hype.  Not only hype, but hype again.  Marcus, a cognitive psychologist at New York University, seems to have a point:  how many times have we heard that the "smart robots" are just around the corner?
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