Author: TJ Ravishankar

This is the second instalment of the reflections on the impossibility of a generalized AI. While the first examined the issue through the prism of language, the second addresses it via our understanding of the functioning of the human brain. Sifting through different and often contrasting research in neuroscience and quantum physics on understanding how the brain functions and whether there is a mind or consciousness, this article raises the question of the possibility of a generalized AI amidst all the open questions facing us.
(I must make it clear that the research I have referred to in neuroscience and quantum physics is vastly more than I have indicated in this short article.)

The creation of a generalized AI has been a dream for many decades and we are nowhere near it. Given the nature of language, is this even possible? This is a tentative attempt to pose the question especially in the face of commendable work in NLP