Current approaches to AI by establishments are completely opposite of what
AI is supposed to be. They are barking on the wrong tree. The more time and
money spent the further they are away from the true AI. They are afraid of
the risk of taking a different approach. As long as they can get the funding
and get their fame, they are happy with current approach.
The success of true AI will depend on some innovative individuals. But this
path is mixed with hardship and uncertainty. Even if a man has an idea, he
still need many years of work to build a simple system to demonstrate the
underlying principles. The workload is more than a man can handle. It
involves developing a system and writing the code. Besides, in order to
make the system appealing to investors, he need to think like a businessman,
finding out the potential market that would require such preliminary
product that has basic function modules such as logic, visual and action
output. If your system can only do some simple task, what is the need for it
. There are plenty of human capitals in the world.
Only after he has demonstrated his system has real market potential, will he
be able to attract investors and start to build full scale AI that has
complete function modules, which will be most useful and be appreciated. In
the meantime, he need to secretly guard the secret, as this is one of his
most sacred beliefs in life. Before he can achieve his goal, he needs to
work an unrelated job to make a living and establish a family. Not many
girls will be impressed with a guy with such dream.
Anyway, the road to true AI is fraught with many challenges.
