[judk]

Your criticism is fair, but you fail to explain how an NN or SVM is any worse than how a human mind actually operates.

In other words, the incomprehensibility of a modern AI model is not a failing of AI, it is a failing of (AI) psychology and (AI) neuroscience.

The artificially constructed intelligence works whether or not we understand how. The frontier of AI science is now open to AI Psychology. Psychologists and Neuroscientists will replace the data scientists! Such fun!

[joe_the_user]

I could hardly contrast the operations of a NN to those of the human mind because we most definitely don't understand the later. I have already described apparent properties of human minds that NN and SVN definitely don't have. But I'll repeat and expand:

The artificially constructed intelligence works whether or not we understand how

The operation of human intelligence is very dependent on the fact that we human have operational understanding of each other's mental processes. Moreover, it is well known that human beings process language and can re-evaluate past experience in light of present understand.

Oppositely, we know enough about the properties of the various non-linear recognizers to know that constructs can't do and won't ever be able to do these things.