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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 07 April 2014 05:51:47PM * 0 points [-]

The problem was that AI turned out to be much more hard that it seemed back in the day.

Er, yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. It's "Symbolic manipulation seemed poised to finally deliver a proper AI." that is completely incorrect.

Changed "Before dismissing this as" to "Before dismissing this confidence as" for clarity.