A set of interrelated facts may constitute a universe like the physical universe but it does not constitute a world. | Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. Dreyfus, Making a Mind vs. Modeling the Brain: AI Back at a Branchpoint, 1995

programs dealing systematically with knowledge in isolated domains, 1970s:

SHRDLU, terry winograd
analogy problem program, thomas evan
scene analysis program, david waltz
"program which learned concepts from examples", patrick winston

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predictions and reality; one could add a lot of other stories at this point, or better: try out kurzweil

The common-sense knowledge problem has kept AI from even beginning to fulfill Simon's prediction made twenty years ago that "within twenty years machines will be capable of doing any work a man can do." | making a mind versus modelling

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a degenerating research program. a phrase introduced by imre lakatos (philosophical papers. ed. j. worrall, cambridge university press, 1978)