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Cracks in the facade of Artificial Intelligence

At Wade & Wendy Inc., an A.I.-powered human resources company, we routinely run up against limits in how intelligent we can make our recruiting chatbot. On the other hand, don't many of us expect general artificial intelligence, even "Kurzweil's singularity" promising infinite intelligence, to be just around the corner? In this talk i'd like to explore that vast chasm between expectations and reality, starting with some details of how we've recently developed our own A.I. products at Wade & Wendy, then touching on some of the concepts and theoretical underpinnings that set the stage for understanding what may or may not actually be possible in the future. A question to start thinking about now before we meet is: how conscious, intelligent, experienced, wise, or agile, would you like your next taxi driver to be?