I use the term “AI” but couch it in the context that we are probably ten to a hundred years away from general artificial intelligence. I have a lower bar on my

I use the term “AI” but couch it in the context that we are probably ten to a hundred years away from general artificial intelligence. I have a lower bar on my definition of general artificial intelligence as something that can be narrow but has a world view model for its activities and the environment and this model changes with experience, the AGI can explain what it is doing in its narrow field of expertise, and can creatively develop new techniques for solving problems in its narrow domain of expertise. I have been paid to work in the field of AI since 1982 so I have experienced AI winters. I almost hope we have another to act sort-of like simulated annealing to get us out of the highly effective local minimum of deep learning. I have been paid to work with deep learning for about the last five years (except I retired six months ago) and I love it, a big fan, but it won’t get us to where I want to be. Perhaps hybrid symbolic AI and deep learning? I don’t know.