How does reality compare to the dreams of AI's early pioneers? V3

The world has been through multiple'AI winters' (a time when the perception of artificial intelligence as a solution collapses and funding is withdrawn from major projects) since the tech's early days in the mid-20th century. However, the last such period, in the 1990s, is long since over, and AI is back in vogue once again, with ever-rising numbers of people working to prove that machines can simulate human learning. One of AI′s early movers and shakers was Marvin Minsky, whose work includes the first randomly wired neural network learning machine, which he built in 1951. In 1967 Minsky predicted that "within a generation... the problem of creating'artificial intelligence' will substantially be solved." He was wrong about that.