I want to preface that I know no more about AI than the average technologist, so I'm not making any claims.
>> Various paths proposed earlier turned out over optimistic and dead end.
> False. Various paths proposed earlier are the same ones being turned into profitable solutions today. They are the same ones underlying the bulk of white papers today. There weren't over optimistic. They weren't dead ends which is why various groups are using them to suck down billions of dollars today. What happened that caused the previous AI winter is that people rushed fundamental research into applied engineering.
How do you fit full brain emulation in that description? And in particular Henry Markram's work with Blue Brain and Human Brain? As far as I know it doesn't have any profitable outcomes, and people have been working at it for decades - and now even with pledge funding by the EU and others to the tune of a billion euros - yet nine years after Markram said we could have a functional human brain in ten years, nothing much seems to have emerged.
>> Various paths proposed earlier turned out over optimistic and dead end.
> False. Various paths proposed earlier are the same ones being turned into profitable solutions today. They are the same ones underlying the bulk of white papers today. There weren't over optimistic. They weren't dead ends which is why various groups are using them to suck down billions of dollars today. What happened that caused the previous AI winter is that people rushed fundamental research into applied engineering.
How do you fit full brain emulation in that description? And in particular Henry Markram's work with Blue Brain and Human Brain? As far as I know it doesn't have any profitable outcomes, and people have been working at it for decades - and now even with pledge funding by the EU and others to the tune of a billion euros - yet nine years after Markram said we could have a functional human brain in ten years, nothing much seems to have emerged.