Another way of putting it: AI research of the 60s-80s was extremely impressive and is ridiculously underappreciated right now. Many ideas were simply way ahead

Another way of putting it: AI research of the 60s-80s was extremely impressive and is ridiculously underappreciated right now. Many ideas were simply way ahead of their time. It's sad that most software engineers today do not bother learning anything about the past of computing, assuming everything made in those decades is automatically "outdated". (This is not restricted to AI. For example, most OO programmers don't know what is Smalltalk.) The guy the article about says as much. “I’ve stopped giving general advice to other researchers,” said Dickmanns, now 82 years old. “Only this much: One should never completely lose sight of approaches that were once very successful.” I really feel for those researchers. Seeing how your life's work is ignored by people who brute-force their ways through the problems you've already solved must be rather depressing.