About DARPA's view of AI and how far it is from real intelligence.
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About DARPA's view of AI and how far it is from real intelligence.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
It's good to see a main funding agency's perspective.
As a researcher, I like their non-hype way of defining AI as "programmed ability", which is accurate and realistic -- also puts AI further apart from real intelligence, which means unanticipated activities.
I would like to know more what they see as "abstracting", from their perspective.
We haven't got much further in our scientific understanding of intelligence - if you bought a psychology text book today and ten years ago there wouldn't be much of a breakthrough change detectable in terms of modeling cognition. And as impressive as some computer science AI models perform certain tasks, I haven't been taken by surprise by them asking me a question out of the blue, which is one of my personal litmus tests for intelligence.