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And last I heard thirty years was optimistic.

Fusion Power is like Artificial Intelligence. They've both been "Coming in 30 years" since work on them started.

I heard "forty years after you start funding it properly"

Well, we'll find out in 2035!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMO

On the other hand, when (weak) Artificial Intelligence works we stop calling it AI.

For example, we used to refer to rule-based systems as expert systems and treat them as AI magic. Nowadays, there are rule-based systems at the heart of many software projects - and noone thinks twice about them.

Absolutely. As soon as we can do X, X stops being artificial intelligence. I remember when "beating humans at chess" was considered to be a mark of AI. Nowadays I can search billions of documents with the help of a computer system that will correct my spelling, be recommended movies based on prior purchases, and face opponents who can command armies much more effectively than me, but apparently none of this is AI any more :->

'AI of the Gaps'

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