The Golden Age of AI ended because researchers were solving artificial, simplified versions of problems (microworlds) rather than real-world problems; while the simplified versions were solvable, the solutions didn't transfer to real problems because they abstracted away the actual difficulties.
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Michael WaldridgeEvidence Quote
“people were looking at artificial versions of problems rather than real problems that is they were looking at some problem in the real world like a robotics problem and then coming up with a simplified simulation of that problem in a computer they were able to solve it in the simple simulated version but that simulated version didn't address any of the problems that were there in the real world”
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Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI History— Johnathan BiCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:08:35 AM
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