Why AI and Robotics are Going Nowhere Fast

In Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics, androids are thought of as being machines with human-like abilities. They are seen as being capable of meaningful interaction with people and as being able to do the same sorts of thing that humans do. Some prominent researchers think that the ultimate goal of AI is to manufacture such androids. Although I am sceptical about the possibility of producing a completely undetectable android, whose functionality is identical to that of a human being, I am not entirely negative about what can be achieved. Searle (1984) and Dreyfus (1992) are; they believe that there are irreducibly non-algorithmic human abilities that machines will never have. I have argued elsewhere why it will always be possible to distinguish an android, no matter how sophisticated, from a human being, provided that that android was designed and manufactured by human beings (Diller, 1999). Be that as it may, I can see no reason why androids ABSTRACT