I love history as much as the next guy, and this is exciting writing, but the issue I have with this is that we haven’t seen the end. That is to say, AI is an

I love history as much as the next guy, and this is exciting writing, but the issue I have with this is that we haven’t seen the end. That is to say, AI is an unsolved problem, and we don’t really know what the solution will look like. We are in a (the?) golden age for statistical learning but in the end, symbolic processing and prolog like architecture might turn out to be the key. I will point to someone much smarter than myself — Jerry Fodor — to make the arguments. But basically it amounts to this: intelligence is the ability to reason and our best model for reasoning is linguistic. Okay, he says it much better than I do.