On the Crossroad of Artificial Intelligence: A Revisit to Alan Turing and Norbert Wiener

Abstract

To give a high-level summary to current approaches for implementing artificial intelligence (AI), we explain the key commonalities and major differences between Turing's approach and Wiener's approach in this perspective. Especially, the problems, successful achievements, limitations, and future research directions of existing approaches that follow Weiner's ideas are addressed, respectively, aiming to provide readers with a good start point and a roadmap. Some other related topics, for example, the role of human experts in developing AI, are also discussed to seek potential solutions for some existing difficulties.