If you go back in history, they made a lot of cool demos with little symbolic AI. They could never scale them up they were never able to get them to solve non-toy problems. Now with deep learning the situation is reversed. ... Not only is [the AI we’re developing] general, it’s also competent if you want to get the best results on many hard problems, you must use deep learning. And it’s scalable.
Ilya Sutskever