Ask HN: Are past AI researchers relieved that they didn't have a chance at AI?

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They didn’t fail from lack of intelligence or effort, but because they lacked the data and compute needed for today’s AI.

So maybe they feel relieved now, knowing they failed for good reasons.

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I spent my 53 years in robotics and AI. I started at Unimation doing robot research, joined IBM doing robot research, worked at CMU doing robot research. I worked at IBM doing AI research (using neural nets from PDP Rumelhart), did graduate work in machine vision, etc.

It turns out that it was all a waste of time (but great fun).

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262680530/parallel-distributed-...

Vaguely related - I'm glad I just retired ahead of having to work with AI

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