AI history teaches that it is very easy to get over-excited and read too much into breakthroughs; people have repeatedly claimed to have found the 'magic ingredient' (search, deep learning alone, now Transformers) that will solve AI, but the field has repeatedly discovered that additional unknown ingredients are necessary.

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Michael Waldridge

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it's very easy to get OV excited and to read too much into what you're seeing in Ai and people have done that on multiple occasions

Source

Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI HistoryJohnathan Bi
Created: 7/7/2026, 3:38:35 AM

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