# Is There a Smarter Path to Artificial Intelligence? Some Experts Hope So https://blog.cynexia.com/is-there-a-smarter-path-to-artificial-intelligence-some-experts-hope-so Author: [Rob Aleck](https://blog.cynexia.com/pages/about) · https://github.com/mnbf9rca · https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertaleck/ · https://family-foqos.app/ Published: 2018-06-22 Categories: LinkedIn cross-post Novel new approaches to the use of AI - highlighting its use as an augmentation to human judgement, not a substitute - are welcome, but still fall far short of addressing the elephant in the room - most machine learning or AI today is still pure statistical inference, often without even implicit acknowledgement of the path of causation (grass grows when the sun shines - but which causes which?). Until this problem question is addressed, even the new approaches outlined in this article will just be fitting data to a curve. [https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/technology/deep-learning-artificial-intelligence.html]()A branch of A.I. called deep learning has transformed computer performance in tasks like vision and speech. But meaning, reasoning and common sense remain elusive.