When I was in university(mid 2000s) we had this subject called "AI fundamentals" - series of lectures + testing in the end(~2hours per week for 6 months), taugh

When I was in university(mid 2000s) we had this subject called "AI fundamentals" - series of lectures + testing in the end(~2hours per week for 6 months), taught by respected faculty member (or so we thought), it was going to be awesome. What it actually turned out to be - lecture were dude talking non-stop things like (almost a quote by the way) "AI is not like regular app, it should be capable of taking task in form of 'go somewhere don't know where and bring me something I don't know what' and it would actually solve it. Having that would be true AI and that's what this all is about" and how great would be to have such AI and how close humanity is to it and yadda yadda yadda AI/tech dreamy stuff that you'd see in general media. Once in a while he would mention one or two concepts from AI theory and that would be it. And like that 6 months went by, we learned nothing, passed his "test" (which was pretty much questionnaire about all that blue-sky thinking) to get some default "pass" marks into diploma and that was it. Lots of smart-y talk, ~zero useful content. This is what this article is. HN community provided way more substance in a single (of several) threads on "is ceo pay fair" topic.