You are missing the point of my objection.<p>For starters, I said <i>modern</i>. Most of the big recent breakthroughs in AI have come from neural nets. There is a inherent problem with deep learning with neural nets. Neural nets are exceptional at finding patterns within a huge dataset, but they are REALLY, REALLY bad at predicting new patterns that they haven&#x27;t seen. Even something as simple as the pattern a^2b is impossible for a neural network to generalize past whatever length of the pattern the neural network has seen without modifications (check out stack-rnn by facebook).<p>Even if an AI is trained for years, I don&#x27;t see this limitation being overcome by pure magnitude of data with our current techniques. You say I don&#x27;t have enough &quot;future vision&quot;, but all you are doing is basically guessing that AI researchers will make some huge breakthrough that significantly changes the direction of the entire field. You are playing the lottery with your guesses, I&#x27;m simply extrapolating current trends.