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> Anti-hype is perhaps more pernicious in bringing about an "AI Winter" than is drumming up interest in what AI, or more accurately AGI, will be capable of in t
by rntz 11y ago
> Anti-hype is perhaps more pernicious in bringing about an "AI Winter" than is drumming up interest in what AI, or more accurately AGI, will be capable of in the not-too-distant future.
AI is massively popular in both industry and academia at the moment. It is at no risk of being deinflated by "anti-hype".
- wtbob 11y ago> AI is massively popular in both industry and academia at the moment. It is at no risk of being deinflated by "anti-hype". Isn't it precisely when something is massively inflated that it's most at risk of being deflated? Remember those mid-80s films with intelligent computers everywhere? People really thought that AI would be a solved problem within years. Then reality struck and the AI winter fell.
- rntz 11y agoThat's a case of deflation due to hype, not due to anti-hype. The whole point of the original article is to avoid overpromising and underdelivering.