I am a entrepreneur/researcher working to create artificial intelligence. My approach follows Turing's suggestion that one should create a child mind and proceed to educate it. I employ Construction Grammar in my English dialog system - not a statistical parser/generator. Operating on a smartphone, I use available statistical speech recognition engines to transform speech to text, but from that point onwards the server-side processing in Construction Grammar is symbolic, thus engineered from first principles. Likewise, for English generation, my discourse planner emits structured RDF that the bi-directional Construction Grammar generator transforms into a text utterance. That symbolic text is then input to an available statistical text-to-speech engine available on the smartphone, to speak to the user.

As an example of the power of symbolic approaches, my parser has a complete symbolic analysis of English auxillary verb constructions, producing unique, meaning-rich, RDF-compatible semantics for:

I am learning about computers.

We are learning about computers.

We will be learning about computers.

I could be learning about computers.

I have been learning about computers.

I better learn about computers.

I had better learn about computers.

I dare learn about computers.

I did learn about computers.

I do learn about computers.

He does learn about computers.

I had learned about computers.

He has learned about computers.

I have learned about computers.

He is learning about computers.

I need learning about computers.

I ought to learn about computers.

I ought to be learning about computers.

I used to learn about computers.

I was learning about computers.

We were learning about computers.

Because of the so-far limited success of my work, I am inclined to agree with Chomsky's AI argument despite using a modern grammar opposed to his linguistic principles.

An artificial intelligence will use both statistical techniques and symbolic, e.g. procedural techniques, I think. With the most useful intelligent behavior being symbolic. E.g. an AI designing, writing and testing software.