Steve Grand: Moving AI out of its infancy: Changing our Preconceptions

[Update: the article can now be found here]

An excellent article by Steve Grand, on where he thinks AI needs to go. It's like a summary of the main points in his book "Growing Up With Lucy".

The main points he makes are:

• The purpose of the brain is to compensate for all the time it takes for the nerve signals to travel to it and back again.
  
• Brains don’t make decisions
  
• Brains perform coordinate transforms
  
• Nervous tissue is a new state of matter
  
• The more complex a robot is, the easier it is to make progress