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#57 - Prof. Melanie Mitchell - Why AI is harder than we think

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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Since it's inception in the 19 fifties, the field of artificial intelligence has vascelated between periods of optimistic predictions and massive investment. Professor melini metro thinks one reason for these repeating cycles is our limited understanding of the nature and complexity of intelligence itself. In 19 60, the a i pioneer herbart siman declared that machines will be capable within 20 years of doing any work that a man can do. The following year, clord shannan ecoed this prediction, saying that he confidently expected that within a matter of ten or 15 years, something will emerge from the laboratry. And a few years later, marvin minski predicted that within a generation, the

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