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Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Forgotten AI Summit
Long before ChatGPT, a group of AI luminaries gathered on an island to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. Their funder ultimately cast a shadow on all who attended.
The trouble is that building such systems amounts to ’solving AI.’” As tough as that is, he wrote, “We have no choice but to face it head on.” (Bill Gates saw the paper and commented, “I think your observations about the AI field are correct.”) Eventually, the guest list grew to include Roger Schank, a celebrated AI theorist whose obituary was marred by attending the event and by serving a brief spell as chief learning officer of Trump University. Yet the conclusions of the Common Sense Symposium still have relevance; some scientists now argue that neural-nets alone can’t “solve” AI, and we need to combine them with more traditional reasoning-based approaches for the technology to reach its full potential.
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