mr_ped Messages: 825 Registered: November 2005 Location: Czech Republic - Praha
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"... but I am quite a believer in possibility of Strong AI in near future (20-30 years) and I would like to try some things myself..."
If possible at all, then IMO yes, it may happen.
Although I'm afraid the 20-30 years is a mix between speed of HW (exponential) and SW (limited by smart humans adding small pieces every year) evolution, and the strong AI itself will be more like pure SW.
But this thing may be tricky to predict, once somebody will jump on the right track, the next development may be blazingly fast, like 10 years from that point and the AI will be very strong. And there may be as well as 100 years of dead ends before that point.
Although I'm not very current with recent AI development, so I may be well off the real status.