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.

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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?

So basically you're saying that they list the stuff that works (and is therefore well known) but also some stuff that was found to not work, and the latter indeed doesn't work?

Ah, humans and their inimitable stupidity!