Frustrating AI. When reducing the size of artificial intelligence | By Matt Drabek | November 2025
On downsizing artificial intelligence
We’ve seen a torrent of articles about the power of so-called “artificial intelligence.” Whether for or against, all articles acknowledge AI as a major force.
Most approach the topic from the starting point that AI will change the economy and take your job. Writers even consider that AI vendors are right when they say that it is almost identical to human intelligence.
But that gives away too much. The first of these claims is possible, but not certain. The second is largely false.
And on Which PS, I was glad to see him n+1 He addressed the topic recently edition From her series “Intellectual Status”. Partially inspired by n+1To take an example, I will draw some lessons about artificial intelligence and how we should approach it differently.
Frustrating AI
n+1 We are proponents of a de-illusionist approach to AI. But what does that mean?
That is, we point out the obvious flaws in what AI vendors say, especially their claim that AI matches human intelligence or will match human intelligence in any plausible future.
In reality, artificial intelligence does not and cannot. Artificial intelligence offers a kind of superficial version of human intelligence. The entire artificial intelligence research program has fallen back on attempts to match full human intelligence in the late…
