A veteran group of researchers, and not so veteran, from MIT are taking another stab at artificial intelligence (AI). Reading the article from MIT news it initially sounds like they’re taking a new approach, but the further you read the more it falls into the grandiose promises made earlier in AI’s 50 year history. Such as Herbert Simon’s famous prediction from the 1960s.
Machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do.
What I found most interesting about this supposed new approach to AI was the possibility of the group venturing into interactive story.
Among the concepts the group may explore are concepts for “intelligent,” adaptive books and games — or, as Gershenfeld suggests, “books that think.”
Funny how I didn’t see any writers or artists in the group. When was the last time you read a story from a scientist? Story isn’t science, it’s art. Why would adding interactivity then require the aid of AI researchers and scientists to crack the conundrum? Shouldn’t we be looking to artists for a solution, a creative use of smoke and mirrors possibly?
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