ISTR reading back in the mid '90s, in a book on computing history which I have long since forgotten the exact name/author of, something along the lines of: In

ISTR reading back in the mid '90s, in a book on computing history which I have long since forgotten the exact name/author of, something along the lines of: In the mid '80s it was largely believed among AI researchers that AI was largely solved, it just needed computing horsepower to grow. Because of this AI research stalled for a decade or more. Considering the horsepower we are throwing at LLMs, I think there was something to at least part of that.