Oh - I agree with that; IMO the AI of today and the next 40+ years (my life, probably) is not going to be close to human equiv, or mouse equiv. But it doesn't n

Oh - I agree with that; IMO the AI of today and the next 40+ years (my life, probably) is not going to be close to human equiv, or mouse equiv. But it doesn't need to be. But AI is, today, a really useful set of new tools, which takes a lot of expertise to wield successfully. I expect that progress for the next decade will be slower than most people think, but I still think we will get some improvement over the current state of the art, and there is a lot of art to propagate and utilize. And mouse equiv is not an issue for me. We have a lot of mice around. Same for humans. We are not short of autonomous agents with common sense, full on NLP and a strong grasp of naive physics. Goodness me, they even come with a self repairing all terrain chassis! What we are short of (right now) is agents that can make rational sense of large scale, rapidly changing, complex and incomplete data; and can make and enact decisions over said data.