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All living things have reasoning abilities that allow them to learn experientially, to respond to situational changes, and to adapt and evolve.  Additionally, humans are uniquely able to comprehend, explain, reason symbolically, consciously intent, and to use natural language.  

AI has appeared in a variety of forms over the past 70 years, each time with grandiose ambitions, no measurable milestones, and requirements for enormous expenditures before substantive results will be visible.  Each effort ended without success and with little lasting value.  The world is now in the midst of another AI boom with perhaps the greater expenditure of any project in history, no clear measures of success, and using methods that are inherently inadequate.  

In brief, modern artificial intelligence (AI-NL) is a data driven approach that attempts to use statistical and other predictive methods to mimic reasoning abilities that are common to all living things to achieve reasoning abilities that are unique to humans.  This presentation provides a history of AI, its successes and failures, and why the current movement is dangerous without a chance for success.  

Biography:

David A. Fisher is a mathematician, engineer, and computer scientist.  His current research is in formal logic, computational auxiliary language, emergent algorithms, and new computational paradigms.  He is an inventor of programming languages, instruction set  architectures, and near-linear-time algorithms.  He has over 200 publications in various areas of computer science including distributed systems, embedded systems, compiler construction, agent based simulation, software engineering, physics based high performance computing, information security, and infrastructure survivability.  He coned the term "embedded system", was architect of the first LSI computer, designed the avionics computer for the F-15 aircraft, orchestrated the development of the Ada language, and invented several scheduling and garbage collection algorithms.  

Fisher earned a B.S. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and an M.S.E. from Moore School of Electrical Engineering.  He is a senior life member of the IEEE and has had an eclectic career in industry, academia, and government.  He has been a practicing engineer, scientist, professor, and entrepreneur, as well as senior executive in the U.S. Departments of Defense and Commerce, and an officer in both listed stock and privately held corporations.  

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