Some of us believe that general intelligence is possible in (complex) software on a (powerful) stored-program computer. As in, we don't know how to write it yet

Some of us believe that general intelligence is possible in (complex) software on a (powerful) stored-program computer. As in, we don't know how to write it yet but it doesn't require weird quantum effects. The processors are just doing the very simple operations they are told to, very fast, but the intelligence arises from the complexity of the system. However I quite agree that the cheerleaders for AI frequently do us all a disservice by exaggerating the successes, and above all by exaggerating how close we may be to a breakthrough.