How Might Different Fields within Artificial Intelligence Impact Innovation?
Distinguishing between these three streams of AI is a critical first step towards
developing a better understanding of how AI is likely to influence the innovation process going
forward, since the three differ significantly in their potential to be either GPTs or IMIs—or both.
First, though a significant amount of public discussion of AI focuses on the potential for
AI to achieve super-human performance over a wide range of human cognitive capabilities, it is
important to note that, at least so far, the significant advances in AI have not been in the form of
the “general problem solver” approaches that were at the core of early work in symbolic systems
(and that were the motivation for considerations of human reasoning such as the Turing test).