The perils of the AI predictions game - lessons from 2021's AI predictions

Niels Bohr, the Nobel laureate in Physics and father of the atomic model, is quoted as saying, "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future!" I picked Ron Toews, not to criticize, but to use his AI predictions for 2021 (made last year) as an example of how harrowing this game can be. I'll admit, I'm too timid to make predictions, but I do enjoy tracking how well others did in the previous year. Also, Toews is very well informed about the subject matter, and he's not a vendor, whose "predictions" are not always objective. Here's my quick hits on Toews' ten AI predictions for 2021 - and how they fared.