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I don't know, expert systems haven't been so hot lately...

• arisAlexis 5y ago
  It's very surprising what people with downvote power do but it's *** to downvote anyone that disagrees. Anyway expert systems were a precursor to the technology and they got replaced much like new physics replace old physics.
  • ASalazarMX 5y ago
    Disagreeing doesn't mean you're right. AI is not equivalent to the future, and it will burst if it stalls and another AI winter cools the current hype cycle.
  • jefft255 5y ago
    It's because you made a false analogy. AI isn't literally "the future". Billions of $ are being invested in deep-learning focused AI right now (which you call "the future"), and yes it could be a bubble and it could burst. You can disagree, but it's still a sensible thing to predict.
    • arisAlexis 5y ago
      By bursting you mean humanity will never create artificial intelligence? Or you mean that there will be a cool off period as for example what happened with quantum physics at some point? Because it sure looks to me that there is no future without AI regardless of cool off periods. That makes my statement true. If you think humanity will never progress from where we are now then we pretty much are on very opposite schools of thought.
      • jefft255 5y ago
        I agree with you, but I also think that the current wave of investment is in fact a bubble that will burst. See, I truly believe that AI will be an important part of our future. What you call a cool off, I call a bubble burst, which it is when the cool off involves investors losing tons of money they bet on deep learning.
      • frostburg 5y ago
        The point being discussed here is that the current approaches (and those investing in them) might fail to yield any further significant advance.