[bjornsing]

It is a bit weird though… I mean, you could just as well say that the last breakthrough in all of computing was the transistor (Shockley 1946) – all we’ve been doing ever since is just “scaling” and combining them in new ways.

[namaria]

AI has been a 'moving aim' as opposed to moving target. It's a label slapped on whatever slice of software engineering seeming most magic-like at any given decade.

Early computers in late 40s were called 'electronic brains' by the media...