The 'Golden Age' of AI (1956-1974) was characterized by genuine early successes—machines could play checkers, solve mathematical problems, perform rudimentary planning—leading researchers to believe that full general intelligence was only decades away, fueling massive optimism despite solving toy problems rather than real-world ones.
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“there was this massive optimism for that reason that progress was just going to be swift people thought within decades that they were going to be at the end of the road in AI”
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Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI History— Johnathan BiCreated: 7/7/2026, 3:38:35 AM
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