Wasn't it sort of the same way during the first AI boom? Expert systems providing some real value in limited and sexy prototypes working with a simplified bloc

Wasn't it sort of the same way during the first AI boom? Expert systems providing some real value in limited and sexy prototypes working with a simplified blocks world that hinted at something power world-changing. Then... > the thinking is that now all problems are going to be solvable ...and then failure and the "AI winter" for a generation after the initial promise had been discredited.