The Entire Effort Of Artificial Intelligence Is

I Would Proclaim That The Vast Majority Of What [say, Scientific American] Is True-yet My Ability To Defend Such A Claim Is Weaker Than I Would Like. And Most Likely The Readers, Authors, And Editors Of That Magazine Would Be Equally Hard Pressed To Come Up With Cogent, Non-technical Arguments Convincing A Skeptic Of This Point, Especially If Pitted Against A Clever Lawyer Arguing The Contrary. How Come Truth Is Such A Slippery Beast?

Relying On Words To Lead You To The Truth Is Like Relying On An Incomplete Formal System To Lead You To The Truth. A Formal System Will Give You Some Truths, But As We Shall Soon See, A Formal System, No Matter How Powerful Cannot Lead To All Truths.

Reductionism Is Merciless.

We Don't Want To Focus On The Trees (or Their Leaves) At The Expense Of The Forest.

The Strange Flavour Of Ai Work Is That People Try To Put Together Long Sets Of Rules In Strict Formalisms Which Tell Inflexible Machines How To Be Flexible.