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Yikes, Lack of Geniuses Holding Back AI Advances, Driverless Cars Say Me Too
Dr. Lance B. Eliot, AI Insider
Is there a genius shortage that is impeding the progress of AI?
This is a pointed question that keeps coming up in the hallways of AI conferences and that people are whispering about. Sure, there has been some impressive efforts of newer AI systems that suggest we are making solid progress in AI, but it’s not particularly breakthrough-like improvements that have rocketed AI ahead and overcome some of the as-yet-solved thorny problems in AI.
Some people react by saying it is a blatantly stupid question. What does being a genius have to do with progress in AI? Do we need to have an Einstein of AI, or a Darwin of AI, or a Leonardo da Vinci of AI, in order to push further ahead on AI?
In essence, you might make the argument that by-and-large the progress in most fields of endeavor has been undertaken by “less than geniuses” that did the hard work and painstaking efforts to make progress. Lots of really smart people can perhaps do the work of those unicorn geniuses. Historians would likely indicate that those of a genius nature are far and few between, and you’d be unlikely to pin substantive progress in endeavors primarily due to those geniuses alone.
