Experts have been predicting human level intelligence 30-50 years out for a while now. I don't see anything in the current line of research that will change tha

Experts have been predicting human level intelligence 30-50 years out for a while now. I don't see anything in the current line of research that will change that situation. My measure of intelligence is creative problem solving in a mathematical discipline like theoretical physics, algebraic topology, combinatorics, etc. All the current AI research is doing is building better and better pattern matching engines. That's all very good but talking about sophisticated pattern matching pieces of code as if they were anything more seems very silly to me. But I don't think looking at things this way is valuable in either case. Hamming has a great set of lectures on what it would mean for machines to think and in the grand scheme of things I think the question is meaningless. The real question is what can people and thinking machines accomplish together.