Yeah... I don't see how anyone can do a survey of the current state of the art and come to the conclusion that we are definitively not approaching a general sol

Yeah... I don't see how anyone can do a survey of the current state of the art and come to the conclusion that we are definitively not approaching a general solution to AI. It's just not credible to claim that you know what can be done with all possible combinations of current ideas, much less those that will be had tomorrow.