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The AI winter didn't seem to hurt AI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
by okareaman 5y ago
The AI winter didn't seem to hurt AI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
- bitwize 5y agoThe AI field pre-winter has been obliterated by the winter. What is now called AI are the parts of the field that got less attention and funding back in the day, mainly prediction by statistical analysis of past data.
- mcguire 5y agoThe AI winter of the 1980s destroyed quite a few careers. Many of the TAs when I was an undergrad graduated into that winter.
- yourenotsmart 5y agoIt destroyed many people's careers, but it didn't destroy AI. There's a difference.
- sgt101 5y agoIt destroyed a particular vision of AI - that of Knowledge Engineering.
- yourenotsmart 5y agoI'd say "not so fast".
- sampo 5y agoAI is very useful, even if the pioneers had to give up on the dream of human-level or human-like intelligence. There is quantum cryptography, but other than that I find it hard to find practical value for quantum computers before they reach the limit, maybe around 80 qubits fit for general computation, that they start to be faster than classical computers. Faster for solving meaningful problems, not useless problems designed for the quantum computer to solve fast.