[AlbertCory]

You might well be 100% right. I'd like to see the Japanese succeed, actually.

However, it was simply not possible for anyone to succeed at AI in the early 80's. It took some Nobel-prize-winning software, a change of approach, and a massive increase in compute power to finally break through.

[llm_trw]

The only thing we needed was the compute. Everything else had been discovered by the 80s.

[philipkglass]

I think that we also needed a much larger training corpus than was available in the 1980s. Back then the largest textual data sets were orders of magnitude smaller.

[adastra22]

Using neural nets. The approach taken towards AI in the 80’s was much less compute intensive.

[numpad0]

Neural nets with hidden layers is literally older than the Apollo 11 landing. That doesn't make sense but it is.

[adastra22]

Read TFA. The Fifth Generation Project involved expert systems & prolog, not neural nets.