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A comment on Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI. Parent comment

Re:Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI by sampo on Monday March 14, 2016 @01:34AM (#11281245)
> We are still a ways away from AGI, but it's now in sight.

These people in 1956 also thought that AGI was in sight:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_Conferences

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Re:Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI by Houshalter on Monday March 14, 2016 @01:55PM (#11284301)
Not most of them, and not with any certainty. The Dartmouth conference was just the very first investigation into whether it was even possible and what it would take. Of course they didn't know when AGI would be developed. The computers they had access to were smaller than my calculator!

Now we have massive computers and 60 years of progress. And lots of real world successes of AI technology. Surely we are in a much better position to predict than people of 60 years ago!

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Re:Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI by sampo on Monday March 14, 2016 @02:24PM (#11284508)
> Not most of them, and not with any certainty.

This probably holds true also today.

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