Hard to compare, different times, no internet, no social media, but there was this idea that AGI was just around the corner, if only we could train a computer w

Hard to compare, different times, no internet, no social media, but there was this idea that AGI was just around the corner, if only we could train a computer with the world's knowledge. There were even projects where people where inputting a lot of logic like statement about the world to use as a data source. The AI that was available was very rudimentary. Expert systems were the big breakthrough.