AI has a pretty extensive history of hype. The original AI efforts by IBM involving rules in the 60s were overblown. Markov hidden state was overblown. The orig

AI has a pretty extensive history of hype. The original AI efforts by IBM involving rules in the 60s were overblown. Markov hidden state was overblown. The original neural networks were overblown (especially the first round). SVMs were overblown. CNNs were hyped beyond what is reasonable. It's funny that virtually every researcher is very aware of this and yet time and time again the press blows is up. Been going on for 70 years now, which defies belief, but it's the actual truth. And it's certainly not a case of researchers failing to tell the press that it's overblown. I don't think we're about to learn though.