#alternate alternate alternate Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck. Here’s How to Move It Forward. -- SundayReview|Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck. Here’s How to Move It Forward. -- Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck. Here’s How to Move It Forward. -- Artificial Intelligence is colossally hyped these days, but the dirty little secret is that it still has a long, long way to go. Sure, A.I. systems have mastered an array of games, from chess and Go to -- Although the field of A.I. is exploding with microdiscoveries, progress toward the robustness and flexibility of human cognition remains -- object travels through the aperture of another. I challenge any robot to do the same. A.I. systems tend to be passive vessels, dredging through data in search of statistical correlations; humans are active -- To get computers to think like humans, we need a new A.I. paradigm, one that places “top down” and “bottom up” knowledge on equal footing. -- works. Integrating that sort of knowledge of the world may be the next great hurdle in A.I., a prerequisite to grander projects like using A.I. to advance medicine and scientific understanding. Continue reading the main story -- I fear, however, that neither of our two current approaches to funding A.I. research — small research labs in the academy and significantly larger labs in private industry — is poised to succeed. I say this as someone who has experience with both models, having worked on A.I. both as an academic researcher and as the founder of a start-up company, -- share their results with the world, rather than restricting them to a single country or corporation. Even the largest “open” efforts at A.I., like OpenAI, which has about 50 staff members and is sponsored in part -- An international A.I. mission focused on teaching machines to read could genuinely change the world for the better — the more so if it made A.I. a public good, rather than the property of a privileged few. -- A version of this op-ed appears in print on July 30, 2017, on Page SR6 of the New York edition with the headline: A.I. Is Stuck. Let’s Unstick It. Today's Paper|Subscribe