> AI research is very faddish with periods of extreme optimism about a technique followed by disillusionment. Truth! I happened to go through grad school at a

> AI research is very faddish with periods of extreme optimism about a technique followed by disillusionment. Truth! I happened to go through grad school at a time when SVMs and kernel methods were cool, neural nets were the opposite, and Hinton and his students were oddball outcasts at NIPS. Kudos to Hinton for sticking to his story until the current "deep learning" hype wave presumably allowed him to buy a yacht and an island. I imagine we'll be hearing about some other non-linear optimization technique in a few years.