Bullshit. AI works everyday and VERY well. AI does a fantastic job tuning SQL Queries. A* does a fantastic job finding reasonable routes between destinations. AI finds optimizations to massively speed up software. AI lays out the very circuitry of most of the ICs in your computer. AI routes the packets between you and HN. It seems that as soon as something in AI works it becomes not AI.
I guarantee you that when we find out exactly how a neuron and neural networks work the human brain will be equally unimpressive. Each person's brain is the product of an uninterrupted chain of evolution stretching back 4 billion years. The field of AI has been around for about 60 years, sorry it hasn't quite managed to best the human brain in every task imaginable.
Also, if one looks at "natural intelligence" they can see some pretty stupid things going on. Losing spaceshuttles due to metric / SAE conversion, wtf?
Ask the average person to name the country that lies between Iraq and Afganistan.
Wolfram Alpha doesn't actually answer the question that was asked. Instead it answers two questions (1) what countries share borders with Iraq; (2) what countries share borders with Afghanistan. The final step (find the intersection of those sets) is a task that I would expect a computer to be better at than a human, but that is the step that Wolfram Alpha misses out.
I guarantee you that when we find out exactly how a neuron and neural networks work the human brain will be equally unimpressive. Each person's brain is the product of an uninterrupted chain of evolution stretching back 4 billion years. The field of AI has been around for about 60 years, sorry it hasn't quite managed to best the human brain in every task imaginable.
Also, if one looks at "natural intelligence" they can see some pretty stupid things going on. Losing spaceshuttles due to metric / SAE conversion, wtf?
Ask the average person to name the country that lies between Iraq and Afganistan.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+country+borders+on...