AI

There is a lot of research in the area of artificial intelligence but apparently very little in artificial stupidity.

Me thinks intelligence is best spotted by it’s lapses into stupidity.

In fact, intelligence as we know it is defined by such lapses.

An example is cognitive dissonance which can lead to despondency or, where there is less hope or control, depression.

You’d think you’d have to be bloody stupid to purposely make a machine that suffered from cognitive dissonance.

But maybe that’s what it’s going to take to get true learning capability and, therefore, artificial intelligence.