It’s important to keep in mind that most of the AI “innovation”/hype is coming from a handful of companies looking to make money from cloud computing or whose m

It’s important to keep in mind that most of the AI “innovation”/hype is coming from a handful of companies looking to make money from cloud computing or whose moat is built on data. The good old story of making money in a gold rush by selling tools... I would venture that the most hyped stuff (deep learning) doesn’t really work very well in practice, and the stuff that works reliably well is boring enough to barely register on the hype train as “AI”. To be fair, that’s probably an exaggerated caricature, but that is my reading between the lines of SOTA AI results. Very few people (even among ML researchers) appreciate the fundamental limitations of associational reasoning (rather than causal reasoning). It’s going to be an interesting time when this message actually sinks in...