Treat AI Like a Dog

Since my PhD research over 35 years ago in image processing, I have had a deep interest in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Early in my research, my dissertation advisor asked me to read “every scholarly book on AI that I could get my hands on.” This was not as daunting a task as it seemed—at the time (circa 1986), there were very few books on AI/ML. I read at least a dozen of these, including classics such as [1], [2], and [3]. Today, there are hundreds of books on the subject.