Artificial Intelligence Students on The Wrong Track

There have certainly been incredible strides madeprogramming efforts are not succeeding as well
in the field of artificial programming and how theseas they should at places like Carnegie Mellon, MIT
systems can interact with humans. Unfortunatelyand Berkeley. Is this to say I am criticizing their
the results as good as they are do not work asefforts entirely? No, however their mirroring
good as they need to. In fact a human who istheories of mimicking the human when interacting
asked to consider if they are discussingare not enough. Humans do not always want
information with a machine or a human online caninteraction with like minds of other humans. As
usually always pick out which is which. So is this awe know opposites attract.
litmus test? No, but if we are going to haveIt is for this reason that I am calling for some
computers and robotics interact with people, weinteractive personality programs which run over
must do better than we are currently.one another to be integrated into the AI systems
In fact what I see as a major problem currentlywith some mirroring which has already been
is that many of the Artificial Intelligence graddeveloped to remain and thus we will be better to
students and their professors are making errorssimulate human behavior in machines which will be
in their assumptions of how best to design theseinteractive robotic assistants. Consider this in 2006.
artificial intelligent systems. Therefore their