>Are you trying to discourage people from trying to solve it? Not at all, the complete opposite. It's a fascinating area but I feel the expectations are compl

>Are you trying to discourage people from trying to solve it? Not at all, the complete opposite. It's a fascinating area but I feel the expectations are completely out of whack with reality. Most of the articles like this have people saying we're only a decade or two away from proper AI, when I'm arguing that that is just not backed up at all - and people are underestimating what work is involved here. When expectations are set wrong, and people eventually realise it, it can damage research in this area as people don't take it seriously any more. Ref the'AI Winter' - the dramatic cut in funding when governments realised most of the experts in the field had massively over-promised and under-delivered. I think we need to break this down into smaller chunks of bounded problems. There is some amazing research around using human like neural networks and similar processes steps for machine vision - e.g. for object recognition, trying to mimic what happens in nature. This is greatly achievable. Trying to model the entire human brain, with talk about how this will lead in the near future to intelligent, reasoning - even sentient AI - is fun but for the reasons I outlined needs an expectation reboot.