Ya I think so too. I envision strong AI as happening in the next 10-20 years, even as just a random walk of the problem space on clusters of thousands of machi

Ya I think so too. I envision strong AI as happening in the next 10-20 years, even as just a random walk of the problem space on clusters of thousands of machines with thousands of cores. But it could take decades after that to get to the point where we understand AI enough to create one with a minimum of cores and algorithms. So he was probably right to discount the importance of creating AI if we don't understand it, but wrong to discount the significance of such an achievement.