In „The Myth of Artificial Intelligence. Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do“ (2021) argumentiert der Computerwissenschaftler Erik J. Larson, dass es eines großen wissenschaftlichen Durchbruchs bedürfe, um in den Bereich vorzudringen, der der menschlichen Intuition oder einem impliziten Weltwissen entspricht: „und niemand hat derzeit eine Vorstellung davon, wie dieser Durchbruch überhaupt aussehen könnte, oder weiß im Detail, wie man dorthin gelangt“.

Who should read this book? Certainly, anyone should who is excited about AI but wonders why it is always ten or twenty years away. There is a scientific reason for this, which I explain. You should also read this book if you think AI’s advance toward superintelligence is inevitable and worry about what to do when it arrives. While I cannot prove that AI overlords will not one day appear, I can give you reason to seriously discount the prospects of that scenario. Most generally, you should read this book if you are simply curious yet confused about the widespread hype surrounding AI in our society. I will explain the origins of the myth of AI, what we know and don’t know about the prospects of actually achieving human-level AI, and why we need to better appreciate the only true intelligence we know—our own.