New book argues Turing's core AI assumption was fundamentally wrong

Computer scientist Peter J. Denning argues in a new book that AI has been built on a flawed assumption from Alan Turing's landmark 1950 paper. He contends that the most important aspects of human intelligence — common sense, intuition, culture and practical know-how — cannot be encoded into machines. This makes true human-level AI fundamentally impossible, no matter how large language models grow, he concludes.

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