"Well, large corpuses of data are going to be useful in lots of them. I don't know that it'll solve all the problems in AI. I mean, right now we can't do all the things that humans can do. Look around you and you can see. I mean, we have office buildings full of people. And many of them aren't using their hand eye coordination. It isn't mechanical engineering which is a problem. You might ask, why are they there? What are they doing? Well, they're having meetings, they're filling out paperwork, they're doing studies, they're communicating with other humans, they're making plans. And those are things, why can't computers do all that? Why is there anybody in those buildings except the janitors and maybe a few top bosses? Well, and computers would be cheap if we could do it, cheaper than those people. And so, why are they there? Well, because computers can't do it yet. And will lots and lots of data solve that problem? I don't think so. Might help, might be part of the solution, but the reason we don't have what you might call human level intelligence yet is that we just don't have the ideas needed in order to write the programs that would allow us to achieve human level AI. But, we have a lot of smart people and I think we're making some progress."
January 1, 1970