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And which information to conceal. Right?
As for "Wright brothers" situation, it's not so obvious. We have AI methods which work but don't scale well (theorem provers, semantic nets, expert systems. Not a method, but nevertheless worth mentioning: SHRDLU), we have well scaling methods, which lack generalization power (statistical methods, neural nets, SVMs, deep belief networks, etc.), and yet we don't know how to put it all together.
It looks like we are going to "Wright stage", where one will have all equipment to put together and make working prototype.
You got it backwards. These methods have generalization power, especially the SVM (achieving generalization is the whole point of the VC theory on which it's based), but don't scale well.
Yes, bad wording on my side. I mean something like capability of representing and operating on complex objects, situations and relations. However it doesn't invalidate my (quite trivial) point that we don't have practical theory of AGI yet.