Why AI Is Heading In The Wrong Direction
 

Is the way we currently define artificial intelligence influencing the process of creating AI or is it the other way around? What are your thoughts on the direction artificial intelligence is heading? This process of constantly trying to predict your environment allows you to understand it. Prediction is the essence of intelligence, not behavior. If we can program a computer or neural network to follow the prediction paradigm, it can truly understand its environment. And it is this understanding that will make the machine intelligent.

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