@Economic_Hitman @matrix @jeffcliff
I took an artificial intelligence class at uni, and I am still pissed about it an year later. Not only did we not write a single neuron, instead, we made a....
chat bot. 
With a pre-determined dialog tree 
@LukeAlmighty @Economic_Hitman @matrix @jeffcliff Natural language (at the time) was one of the holy grails due to the Turing Test.
I had the same, but outside of class I wrote a (shit) OCR program using ANNs.
@Economic_Hitman @matrix @jeffcliff
On the other hand, the same teacher did explain to me why is arteficial inteligence growing slower then it should.
His poinion went something like:
Yeah... neuron networks might be doing a literal miracles right now, but peope do not see inside them that is why ontology (what I teach) is better...
Bruh... that is the point... 
We want to create a decision monolyth that will be making decisions so complex, we won't be able to understand them. That is the entire point. If humans were to understand every single part of the decision, we can program a dumb state machine to do the job... 
that is really really sad.
WAGIE GET IN CAGIE!