Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence?

In 1965, artificial intelligence innovator Herbert Simon said that “machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do.” Two years later, MIT researcher Marvin Minsky predicted, “Within a generation … the problem of creating ‘artificial intelligence’ will substantially be solved.” … Yet, here we are, decades later and what has artificial intelligence done for us lately? If you define artificial intelligence as self-aware, self-learning, mobile systems, then artificial intelligence has been a huge disappointment.

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