>> The claim here is not that algorithmic AI is very [very...] difficult; it is that it is impossible. > As I understood it, impossible in the current research

>> The claim here is not that algorithmic AI is very [very...] difficult; it is that it is impossible. > As I understood it, impossible in the current research paradigms. You can't get around the fact that they are making a claim that something is impossible. If they merely said it was difficult, or the 'something' was something of no interest, there would be nothing here worth discussing.