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Re:Likelihood of discontinuous progress around the developme... by abecedarius on Sunday February 25, 2018 @03:20PM (#16460957)
> Everyone was expecting Deep Blue to revolutionise AI applications too.

That doesn't match my memory at all. The reaction then was dominated by the likes of "this is super-narrow, not real intelligence". (The 80s did have a lot of hyped expectations of related tech, it's true, but that was around 10-15 years earlier.)

Re:Likelihood of discontinuous progress around the developme... by sgt101 on Sunday February 25, 2018 @04:43PM (#16461348)
I thought Watson would; what's happened to that project is a salient lesson.