Some thoughts about artificial stupidity and artificial dumbness

Issue title: Special section: Formal tools and methods of Artificial Intelligence

Guest editors: Zied Bouraoui and Anaëlle Wilczynski

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Lieber, Jean^{a; *} | Mailly, Jean-Guy^b | Marquis, Pierre^c | Prade, Henri^d | Rollin, François^e

Affiliations: [a] Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, bâtiment Loria, B.P. 239, 54506 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France | [b] Université Paris Cité, LIPADE, 75006 Paris, France | [c] Université d’Artois, CNRS, CRIL, 62300 Lens, Institut Universitaire de France, France | [d] IRIT, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse cedex 09, France | [e] Rollmops Unlimited Foolishness, France

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: jean.lieber@loria.fr.

Abstract: In a recently published book, the French writer and comedian François Rollin has discussed various aspects of the notion of stupidity, including artificial stupidity, the stupid counterpart of artificial intelligence. His claim is that a system of artificial stupidity is a system that provides wrong answers to any task it should solve, leading to absurd solutions in most cases. We believe that this claim is (at least partially) false and that designing artificial stupidity is not as trivial as it seems. In this article, we discuss why and how one could design a system of artificial stupidity. We believe that such a reflection on (artificial) stupidity can bring about some interesting insights about (artificial) intelligence.

Keywords: Artificial stupidity, artificial intelligence

DOI: 10.3233/AIC-220322

Journal: AI Communications, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 377-391, 2024