For Problems Sufficiently Hard... AI Needs CogSci
Selmer Bringsjord, Micah H. Clark · 2014
only when these problems are sufficiently hard. When they qualify as such, the best move for the clever AI researcher is to turn not to yet another faster machine bestowed by Moore’s Law, and not to some souped-up version of an instrument in the AI toolbox, but rather to the human mind’s approach to the problem in ques-tion. Despite Turing’s (Turing 1950) prediction, made over half a century ago, that by now his test (the Tur-ing test, of course) would be passed by machines, the best conversational computer can’t out-debate a sharp toddler. The mind is still the most powerful thinking thing in the known universe; a brute fact, this. But what’s a “sufficiently hard ” problem? Well, one possibility is that it’s a problem in a set of those which are Turing-solvable, but which takes a lot