How close are computer scientists?
That’s where it’s very hard to predict when we’re going to be able to succeed. Yet collectively, Microsoft, IBM, Xerox PARC–and the rest–you’re all throwing billions of dollars into R&D every year. But as a user… It’s just not getting there. Right. It’s just not happening. Yeah. Well, there is just so much complexity. I just think those are really hard problems, and it’s not clear when we’re going to crack it because these problems have been referred to in the community as being AI complete–that you get to a certain point and in order for it to really work, you have to know everything about people and society and interaction. Are you attacking the problem at Microsoft Research from a particular angle that’s doing especially well? Well, I think we’re doing a lot of the same things you see other people doing at other research labs. We actually have a project that specifically addresses this kind of core intelligence. We haven’t put a huge amount of resources into it, but it’s within
