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alayne on Dec 29, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The A.I. Anxiety

AI has fairly consistently overpromised and underdelivered. That's one reason the field crashed in the 80s/90s. Marvin Minsky thought we'd have human level AI in the 1970s. None of the people you mentioned are neuroscientists either. I consider Kurzweil a crackpot.

mangeletti on Dec 29, 2015 [–]

Touchscreen displays have been worked on since the 60s[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#History

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