In 1983, Michael Crichton wrote on Artificial Intelligence, as a 30-year old area of research. That's over 70 years ago. 40 years ago I was using AI in my PhD work. 25 years ago, Steven Spielberg made the movie A.I. about (embodied) Artificial Intelligence, i.e. robots. This means that by then there were widespread societal concerns about it that the movie put a voice to. This reaffirms my view that the current hype on A.I. is just a marekting bluff that will soon fade, leaving behind just an improved use of computers, and not a qualitative change as they want us to believe. Here is what Crichton wrote about AI, which is still completely valid: what matters is what we humans do (with it), not what AI does, which is just exactly what we ask it to do. And when we ask it to do tasks that are inherently impossible, for humans as well as for AIs, it is bound to fail. Such tasks include, predicting the future, judging people, creating genuine emotions in others...
