So we made our own computer out of macaroni pieces
So that's the secret of achieving true AI!
Analog computing via food. This is the dawn of the non-Bayes era!
And this is what I call the Lemon Glazing Fallacy, which generates an argument for a fully arbitrary New Idea in AI using the following template:
- Major premise: All previous AI efforts failed to yield true intelligence.
- Minor premise: All previous AIs were built without delicious lemon glazing.
- Conclusion: If we build AIs with delicious lemon glazing, they will work.
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