Stephen Downes

This is a set of interviews with five experts about whether AI can ever match human intelligence. The interviews are relatively short and easy to read, and the content is well-informed. The experts mostly default to the view that 'machine intelligence and human intelligence are fundamentally different' and while they offer explanations of how they differ (eg., as Emily Bender says, in attaching meaning to words) we don't really get any insights on what makes them difference. I suspect that this is because they don't know (eg., how do humans actually attach meaning to words?). My own thought is that human and machine intelligence are fundamentally the same, with limited differences based on the nature of their physical composition.