Rebooting AI
A review of

Rebooting AI

Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis • Pantheon Books • 2019

Don’t Believe the Hype

by David Meyer

AI researchers and prolific authors Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis offer a wide-ranging, readable refutation of myths about AI capability and its likely threat or service to humankind.

Leaders in AI research Gary Marcus – author of Guitar Zero – and Ernest Davis – author of Representations of Commonsense Knowledge believe that AI engineers focus too much on deep learning that relies mostly on statistical models and not enough on cognitive processes. Without true understanding of the world, AI cannot reliably navigate vehicles, empower robots or make ethical decisions. For AI to change lives, they insist, it must resemble the human mind.

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Marcus and Davis’s thesis is that current AI lacks the scope to be a threat or a great boon. Robots don’t know how to turn doorknobs, let alone enslave humans.

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    D. W. 2 weeks ago
    This is the first summary I have read on this app and I find it very helpful. I do wonder if some of the ideas in the book are outdated since it's 5 years old. I'm pretty sure robots are learning to climb stairs and what they've expanded into in the last two or three years is remarkable. But thanks for the great summary!