AI history teaches that it is easy to get over-excited and read too much into breakthroughs; people have repeatedly believed that a single technique (search in the 1950s, deep learning a decade ago, now Transformers) is the 'magic ingredient' for AGI, but each time the field discovers there are missing ingredients we don't yet know about.

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Michael Waldridge

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the history of AI still has lessons to teach us and one of the big lessons that it teaches us is that 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 in the past

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Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI HistoryJohnathan Bi
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:08:35 AM

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