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I too was frustrated by a recent IBM presentation at my uni - there was no technical content. However I don't think an AI winter is coming, as the author's ass
by Simorgh 10y ago
I too was frustrated by a recent IBM presentation at my uni - there was no technical content.
However I don't think an AI winter is coming, as the author's asserts (towards the end). Applied AI research is driven by orgs like DeepMind and OpenAI, as well as academics. This powerful symbiosis of industry and academia will, in my opinion, continue to yield technological breakthroughs in the coming years and decades.
- Bartweiss 10y agoI think we'll continue to see interesting insights and advances, but there's real reason for concern about the public response to AI hype. We seem to be oscillating wildly between three poles: Hawking's "AI will doom us all", IBM's "strong, friendly AI is right around the corner", and the skeptic's "strong AI is a pipe dream, or centuries away!" All three of those voices interfere with the possibility of sharing a useful, accurate view of what AI is and what it can be. As bad as science news and public knowledge of science generally are, the situation is much worse on strong AI, and I think it's right to lay some of the blame for that with IBM and similar hype artists.