I very much hope strong AI to be reality within my life span, it would bring singularity and other wonderful things. but the sad fact is, we have close to 0 ide

I very much hope strong AI to be reality within my life span, it would bring singularity and other wonderful things. but the sad fact is, we have close to 0 idea what intelligence means. In this field, we are still in pre-Newton era where we might have all tools available but have 0 clue how to put them together. that's why the world now are busy tackling small edge cases. The next question is, can we put enough resources (money, smart people, computing power) to brute force? I bet no, because it's not an engineering problem but an ill defined one. historically, major paradigm shift happened where major vendors ignored. there is no reason to believe google folks are smarter than the old generations. if they were, we as consumers are doomed.