Why Artificial Intelligence Needs a Body QUALITANCE

In 1965, Herbert Simon predicted that "within twenty years, machines would be capable of doing any work a man can do." Five years later, Marvin Minsky forecasted that "in from three to eight years we would have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being." Bringing up these predictions is not necessarily meant to emphasize that roughly 50 years later they're still a long way from turning real – in spite of the obvious breakthroughs. It's more about acknowledging the fact that the early founders of AI were overly optimistic about the future of AI. This optimism fueled not only the hype, but also their own dismissal of any criticism – particularly coming from philosophers.