> I hope, at least, that the people who work in AI are too aware of the hype cycles of the past to get caught up in one again, and so there will not be a repea

> I hope, at least, that the people who work in AI are too aware of the hype cycles of the past to get caught up in one again, and so there will not be a repeat of the 60's. Given that AI Winter is a thing, and that it was a reaction to the across-the-board failure of AI to do anything that people expected of it (expectations driven by hype), then I think you'd be right.