It's the combined enthusiasm of academics and entrepreneurs the one driving the current revolution on artificial intelligence. Said enthusiasm is punctuated by

It's the combined enthusiasm of academics and entrepreneurs the one driving the current revolution on artificial intelligence. Said enthusiasm is punctuated by high profile CEOs and investors making fiery remarks from time to time. But alas, we people are not enthusiastic forever about something, and sooner or later our collective psyche will move on. That doesn't mean that the technology revolution, and it's AI component will stop. We have had machine learning for a long time, doing its thing, as best we managed to make it work. It's impact inside our collective speech was more subdued, that for sure, but it was there. Research and development never stopped. Even if some big name university funded it less and shut up about building GAI, well there were still thousands of less shiny institutions and companies working in more tractable problems and building a foundation. And, to be clear, I wish the current collective enthusiasm lasts a little bit longer, because we have a long way to go still and research grants and investment money flow better when the media is abuzz with the subject. In particular, we need to either move out or build upon matrix crunchers like deep learning. Better forms of AI and eventually GAI will need a little bit of innovation in chip-making and in computing architectures in general.