My dream would be if Good Old-Fashioned AI (the symbolic, explainable kind Sussman is interested in) were to have the sudden redemption that neural nets had.<p>It was easier for neural nets, though, because they were close to a previously successful AI mechanism (machine learning with logistic regression), it&#x27;s just that we had spent decades talking about them with different words for no good reason. There&#x27;s a much larger gulf between GOFAI and what we do now.