I disagree with Eliezer on the possibility of Oracular AI (he thinks it's impossible).

Other moderately iconoclastic statements:

• The computer is a terrible metaphor for the brain.
• In the ultimate theory of AI, logic and deduction will be almost irrelevant. AI will use large scale induction, statistics, and memorization.
• In order to achieve AI, it is just as important to study the real world as it is to study algorithms. To succeed AI must become an empirical science.
• AI is a pre-paradigm discipline.
• Rodney Brooks is a great philosopher of AI (I have no comment regarding his technical contributions).
• Large scale brain simulation will not succeed.
• Evolutionary psychology, while interesting from the perspective of explaining human behavior, is irrelevant for AI.
• Computer science, with its emphasis on logic, deduction, formal proof, and technical issues, is nearly the worst possible type of background from which to approach AI.