There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.

What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work.

There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

The brain happens to be a meat machine.

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.