This is an example of the kind of thinking Rodney Brooks has written about when he explained why people get predictions so wrong. People who weren't paying att

This is an example of the kind of thinking Rodney Brooks has written about when he explained why people get predictions so wrong. People who weren't paying attention to autonomous cars, saw the improvement in the two DARPA challenges and thought it was around the corner. Most had no idea that people how long people had been working on the problem. Perceptrons was written in the 1960s. Back propagating neural nets are from what, the early 1980's? It took a little time to get here, it may take some time to get to the next step.