There's something interesting about AI winters: they begin with researchers claiming incremental science (say, heuristic tree search) as Whoa Artificial Intelli

There's something interesting about AI winters: they begin with researchers claiming incremental science (say, heuristic tree search) as Whoa Artificial Intelligence and end up with some pretty complex technology totally taken for granted (car routing apps). In this cycle, we're in love with Computer Vision -- at the other end of the tunnel we might be stuck with omnipresent facial recognition and nada-de-nada of Jeff Hawkins and Ray Kurzweil's dreams.