Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

Despite the hype around AI, creating intelligence equal to or greater than human intelligence is far more complex than we thought. Professors Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis, renowned researchers in the field of artificial intelligence, argue that we are a long way from creating fully autonomous cars or super-intelligent robots. The fact is that the approaches currently taken in the field of AI development are too narrow to create true intelligence. The real world, on the other hand, is extremely complex and diverse. How can this gap be bridged? What will be the consequences when we do? Inspired by human intelligence, Marcus and Davis explain what we need to take AI to the next level. If we focus on endowing machines with common sense and deep understanding, rather than simply teaching them to collect ever more extensive collections of data, we can create an artificial intelligence that we can truly trust with the things that matter to us: our health, our homes, the comfort of our loved ones, and more. The authors provide a comprehensive and vivid assessment of current AI science and offer an inspiring vision of how the next generation of artificial intelligence can make our lives better.