Artificial Intelligence versus Intelligence Engineering
Max Welling · Harvard Data Science Review · 2019
This piece is a commentary on the article: "Artificial Intelligence-The Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet."I congratulate Prof. Jordan with his astute commentary on contemporary trends in the research field known as AI.Under the field's current hype, AI has become a container term confusing experts and laymen alike.Prof. Jordan argues that this state of affairs is not helping the field focus on the truly important tasks that lay ahead of us, namely to turn the new AI technology into safe, privacy preserving, practical, human-centric tools that benefit society.He proposes to disentangle the field into (at least) three subfields: Human-Imitative AI, Intelligence Augmentation, and Intelligent