Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck
An agent can be intelligent without it learning how to read human language. Look around, most organisms in our world communicate using extremely simple binary language or don&#x27;t communicate verbally at all. Yet, they are intelligent enough to do very complicated tasks which current robots fail to do. Intelligence is an easier problem than language, and thus should be solved before language.<p>What a sigh of relief to read a refreshing take on the real progress of AI. Yes, it&#x27;s stuck, and that&#x27;s the real problem of AI, that we haven&#x27;t been able to do anything significant after perception. However, unlike the author, I don&#x27;t think the solution is to nationalize AI research (we&#x27;re not close enough for that), but to fund more non-deeplearning research for 5-10 years, and then we might see some progress in non-perception tasks.