Artificial intelligence paradigm shift

Intelligence or smartness are nebulous concepts that involve a number of different skills--experience, education, memory, pattern recognition, calculation, etc. You can be smart about some things and stupid about others. You can be confident in conclusions that are wrong and uncertain or doubtful in conclusions that are right. The field of AI has a goal of creating a machine that can think--a kind of mechanical person--but real AI research involves mimicking a wide variety of people skills. There is not going to be any sudden epiphany that produces a truly artificial thinking machine overnight. Imagining that there can be is useful to science fiction writers, but it can be harmful to AI researchers. Real progress in AI these days depends on the skills of a team of researchers, and that is just to solve some of the minor problems that go into creating real intelligent behavior in an artificial medium.

Should we call them artificial stupids?

The stalker owl offered up "the cow washed it's clothes yesterday".

Yeah, it's not actually going to make a difference in learning if the sentence describes the impossible but when you get stupid stuff you question your work before realizing it's truly stupid.