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Anatol Wegner, PhD's avatar

Since you mention 50 years: “As AI progresses (at least in terms of money spent), this malady gets worse. We have lived so long with the conviction that robots are possible, even just around the corner, that we can't help hastening their arrival with magic incantations.” - Drew McDermott in 1976

Jeroen Coelen's avatar

I love such sage archaic insight!

Anatol Wegner, PhD's avatar

Well the article the quote is from is titled "Artificial intelligence meets natural stupidity" and has many more gems in it. To check it out: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/1045339.1045340

Chris Tottman's avatar

Tomorrow never comes 🤣

Michael Spencer's avatar

That's so true. The moving goal posts and the dumbing down of an ideal. Commercialized to the point of irrelevance.