1 The Intelligence Error

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: THE SIMPLIFIED WORLD
5. 1 The Intelligence Error 9
6. 2 Turing at Bletchley 19
7. 3 The Superintelligence Error 33
8. 4 The Singularity, Then and Now 44
9. 5 Natural Language Understanding 50
10. 6 AI as Technological Kitsch 60
11. 7 Simplifications and Mysteries 68
12. Part II: THE PROBLEM OF INFERENCE
13. 8 Don’t Calculate, Analyze 89
14. 9 The Puzzle of Peirce (and Peirce’s Puzzle) 95
15. 10 Problems with Deduction and Induction 106
16. 11 Machine Learning and Big Data 133
17. 12 Abductive Inference 157
18. 13 Inference and Language I 191
19. 14 Inference and Language II 204
20. Part III: THE FUTURE OF THE MYTH
21. 15 Myths and Heroes 237
22. 16 AI Mythology Invades Neuroscience 245
23. 17 Neocortical Theories of Human Intelligence 263
24. 18 The End of Science? 269
25. Notes 283
26. Acknowledgments 301
27. Index 303