Comment by civilized

I agree. It's possible to point out the clear limitations of current AI without being oblivious to the huge, indisputable advances that have occurred.

People thought it might take centuries for a computer to defeat a top human in Go. Then deep learning showed up and a few years later it's the opposite.

A lot of the things deep learning methods are doing now are things no one had any idea how long research would take to achieve, or if they were even possible.

Personally, I think we are currently hitting some walls that might take a while to climb before we get to AGI, but I am very impressed at the recent progress.