🤖🔮 1970’s AI Hype Check: Minsky Says “Not So Fast”

In a Nov. 17, 1970 piece from The San Bernardino County Sun, MIT’s Marvin Minsky pushed back on a Life magazine claim that he had promised human‑level “mechanical men” within 3–8 years, saying it was too early to predict. Today, his caution mostly holds, yet parts of that dream arrived. Large AI models can now read and explain Shakespeare, write code, pass tough exams, joke, and work across text, images, etc. What’s still missing is the full, embodied package: a general‑purpose robot that fixes cars or navigates office politics on its own. So is the “unpredictable” progress happening?