> AI is nonsense. Dijkstra was right.

Define AI first.

One of the first few lines on Wikipedia about AI: The scope of AI is disputed: as machines become increasingly capable, tasks considered as requiring "intelligence" are often removed from the definition, a phenomenon known as the AI effect, leading to the quip, "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet."

I can't help repeat this quote from a previous thread. It's from an interview of a lecturer at the London Business School who appeared on a BBC TV programme about technology:

"...Expert systems are really slightly dumb systems that exploit the speed and cheapness of computer chips...There are many expert systems in the literature which are nothing more than a series of fast if-then-else rules...you do that a couple of hundred thousand times it can look remarkably intelligent"

The interview above was broadcast in...1984. There have been advances since then of course, but at the same time this 30-year-old quote still has a certain ring of truth to it.

Here's the clip from the TV programme featuring the quote above: https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....

The idea that ai will be a revolutionary leap is probably nonsense. What we have seen so far is slow incremental evolutionary development of the tech over decades. Everyone raising money is claiming that the quantum leap is just around the corner but there is very little evidence to support that.

What you actually see is that improvements in perceived machine intelligence show diminishing returns to increasing compute capacity which is a good sign that people are on the wrong track to achieve general ai and that future improvements in perceived intelligence will grow at a slower rate, not exponentially increase.

Unless you mean General AI. We don't have that yet.

AI is huge. Machine learning definitively is changing how people work and will work. It is not there yet but it'll get there. Some people just want to monetize on the hype.

Could you please provide a reference for said Dijkstra's sentiments on AI?

AI => machine learning => automated statistics