Professor James Lighthill published a devastating report commissioned by the British government evaluating the state of AI research. He concluded that machines had failed to achieve any of the promised revolutions and that their algorithms suffered from a “combinatorial explosion” (paralysis when attempting to solve real-world problems), leading to a near-total cutoff of funding across the UK and Europe.
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