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Whose Creators They Failed to Credit

The most successful branding and marketing campaign of all time is "artificial intelligence" or AI, influencing the world for 7 decades

Artificial Neural Networks have reached ‘Grandmaster’ and even ‘super-human’ performance’ across a variety of games, from those involving perfect-information, such as Go ((Silver et al. (2016)); to those involving imperfect-information, such as ‘Starcraft’ (Vinyals et al. (2019)). Such technological developments from AI-labs have ushered concomitant applications across the world of business, where an ‘AI’ brand-tag is fast becoming ubiquitous. A corollary of such widespread commercial deployment is that when AI gets things wrong - an autonomous vehicle crashes; a chatbot exhi...

AI has consistently failed to deliver results – so why do our elites have so much faith in it?

Conclusion (~1,700 words). All backed up by over 200 references (~6,500 words). We must stop crediting the wrong people for inventions made by others. Instead let's heed the recent call in the journal Nature: "Let 2020 be the year in which we value those who ensure that science is self-correcting"[SV20]. Like those who know me can testify, finding and citing original sources of scientific and technological innovations is important to me, whether they are mine or other people's [DL1][DL2][HIN][NASC1-9]. The present page is offered as a resource for computer scientists who share this inclin...