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by abecedarius 3034 days ago
> Everyone was expecting Deep Blue to revolutionise AI applications too.

That doesn't match my memory at all. The reaction then was dominated by the likes of "this is super-narrow, not real intelligence". (The 80s did have a lot of hyped expectations of related tech, it's true, but that was around 10-15 years earlier.)

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I thought Watson would; what's happened to that project is a salient lesson.