Comment on Open thread, Oct. 13 - Oct. 19, 2014

Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:37:53 GMT

But I'd argue that their optimism stemmed from irrational assumptions. I'm not even saying that if I were transported back in time I would fall prey to the same irrational assumptions, but I would say that they had naive views of problems like visual object recognition or language comprehension that were completely unmotivated.

A comparable error today would be to assume that Strong AI is right around the corner as soon as we crack some current set of well-defined research problems, that there could not be any more problems that are not yet understood.

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