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> 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_C

by sampo 11y ago

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

Houshalter 11y ago
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!
- sampo 11y ago
  > Not most of them, and not with any certainty. This probably holds true also today.