[mellosouls]

The problem is with the hype which leads many to believe that we are close to building systems which can understand us.

The problem with the hype is that we are nowhere close to building systems that understand anything.

All we've built are calculators on steroids so far.

[sgt101]

Worse, we've build a conceptualisation of these phenomena that renders us as calculators on steroids! I don't think it's feasible to account for or describe anything more with the ideas we have so far.

[mellosouls]

Yes, and not helped by the optimistic appropriation of words like "intelligence" and "learning" to describe the main lines of research.