Is AI a scam?

I was looking at AIMA the other day. You know, Norvig and that other guy?

Well I was reading the book and skimming through and it just hit me. This is all total bullshit. This shit doesn't work at all.

The books a scam written be charlatans - they include a bunch of well known stuff that you have to. E.g. alpha-beta search (invented by john mccarthy), some prolog, lots of talk about bayes law.

But between all that stuff (which is very basic knowledge) they just have surveys. X tried this in 1992. Y tried this in 1994. That's great but I want to write a program that solves a problem - why are they teaching all these methods that fall flat? Because it's the best we currently know?

Pathetic.

>>18
As always, it all comes down to the definition of "intelligence". For some problems, the intelligence of a rat would suffice. For others, the intelligence of a human would be a bare minimum.

>>19
Artificial human-equivalent minds would be stupid to build, as they'd also get bored, get restless, forget, and have emotional weirdness. Any approach simulating the mechanics of the human brain will fall into this trap.

The propagator model sounds like
OOP with getter/setter methods corresponding to
propagators and objects as cells.

>>25
Only if by "OOP" you mean the older aspirations of asynchronous message passing.

This is also not new. Rete networks have been a popular form of this independent propagation idea for a very long time, for example. Though it's not cyclic.

>>27
by getters/setters i mean getter/setters in
javascript objects. see
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/get
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/set