I enjoy "working" on ideas. I will always enjoy working on ideas. I don't work in AI specifically but did purchase "The Society of Mind" by Marvin Minsky and fo

I enjoy "working" on ideas. I will always enjoy working on ideas. I don't work in AI specifically but did purchase "The Society of Mind" by Marvin Minsky and followed OpenCYC. I read this story and thought that the author is too close to subject. I'm sure what he is working on is impressive but the real trick with technology is having it work in the real world. Outside of large rent seeking business plans what practicalities will this provide for the everyday human? The best I can see coming from AI is that large corporations phone systems may start to provide quality responses. I feel that training AI on the internet is not as productive as it may seem. The internet is an artificial environment almost entirely dominated by commercial content. I'm not surprised AI can appear quite smart in those confines. The stumbling block I see is the integration with the outside world. This is domain with sentient creatures with unique ideas.