This #proposal #abstract is often looked at as a #failure in #ai - but I think it was actually a great #success http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/histo.. In just two months, some of the biggest names got together and really fleshed out the #complexity of #artificial #intelligence - and made tonnes of advance in further understanding how hard the problem really is. In this way, people could make better estimates of how difficult the #problemspace really is.