Artificial Intelligence / Unit 1 AI 0014 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Overreach Pattern
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The idea
The field's signature failure is a correct long-range vision priced at a wildly optimistic timeline.
In practice
The Dartmouth proposal expected significant progress from ten people in one summer; it got a seventy-year research program.
Where people slip
When you hear a confident five-year AI timeline, you are hearing the genre that has been wrong in both directions for seventy years.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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