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AcademicInfluence.com features Larson's first-hand insights from his latest book:
"I figured that readers should know about the difference between commercial and practical AI as well as the sort of general intelligence that futurists insist will soon emerge, from steady progress in practical and commercial applications all the way up to the development of 'true,' or general, AI," says Larson.
"The key point is devastating: there isn't a path from one to the other, or what's called narrow (usable) AI to general intelligence. General AI may still be possible, of course, but we can't get there riding a wave of machine learning, or for that matter any of the other traditional methods that we've retired."