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> We live in a cultural climate that loves machines and where the promise of artificial general intelligence assumes, at least for some, religious proportions. The thought that we can upload ourselves onto machines intrigues many. So why not look forward to the prospect of them doing so, especially since some very smart people guarantee that machine supremacy is inevitable. Larson in THE MYTH OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE successfully unseats this inevitability narrative. After reading this book, believe if you like that the singularity is right around the corner, that humans will soon be pets of machines, that benign or malevolent machine overlords are about to become our masters. But after reading this book, know that such a belief is unsubstantiated and that neither science nor philosophy backs it up.

The best way to dispel the hype is to explain to people that computers can not do anything without algorithms/software. So if there is any intelligence anywhere in an AI system then it must have come from people because they're the ones that invent the algorithms. This confusion between algorithms and some mystical disembodied pure form of intelligence only benefits the hucksters that are selling new age promises of digital salvation.