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Do AI as science and engineering instead | Better without AI

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We’ve seen that current AI practice leads to technologies that are expensive, difficult to apply in real-world situations, and inherently unsafe. Neglected scientific and engineering investigations can bring better understanding of the risks of current AI technology, and can lead to safer technologies. AI is unavoidably hybrid as an intellectual discipline. It incorporates aspects of six others: science, engineering, mathematics, philosophy, design, and spectacle. Each of these contributes valuable ways of understanding, and their synergies power AI insights. Different schools of thought within AI emphasize some disciplines and deemphasize others, which contribute to their different strengths and weaknesses. The current backprop-based mainstream overemphasizes spectacle (the creation of impressive demo systems) and mathematics (function optimization methods). It neglects science (understanding how and why the networks work) and engineering (building reliable, efficient solutions to spe

We’ve seen that current AI practice leads to technologies that are expensive, difficult to apply in real-world situations, and inherently unsafe. Neglected scientific and engineering investigations can bring better understanding of the risks of current AI technology, and can lead to safer technologies. AI is unavoidably hybrid as an intellectual discipline. It incorporates aspects of six others: science, engineering, mathematics, philosophy, design, and spectacle. Each of these contributes valuable ways of understanding, and their synergies power AI insights. Different schools of thought withi

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