It's always been this way. I remember, speaking of Microsoft, when they came to my school around 2002 or so giving a talk on AI. They very confidently stated that AGI had already been "solved", we know exactly how to do it, only problem is the hardware. But they estimated that would come in about ten years...

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letmevoteplease an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Let me just repeat that: "Microsoft" came to your school in 2002 and "confidently stated" that AI had been solved. Really interesting story.

	▲	xienze an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, they did. We had guest speakers from Microsoft talking about AI. AI has been a decades-long grift, it's not something that just appeared out of thin air a few years ago. What part do you find hard to believe? That tech companies would send people to speak at a university's computer science functions? Let me give you another one you'll think I'm making up: virtual reality was a thing back in the mid- to late-90s and people were confidently hyping it up back then.

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jakeydus 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I knew flappy bird was a bigger deal than it got credit for. Didn’t realize it was agi until just now.