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> We were making some good progress on getting computers to understand language but, in 1984, AI winter started. AI winter was a result of too many promises abo
by AlbertCory 4y ago
> We were making some good progress on getting computers to understand language but, in 1984, AI winter started. AI winter was a result of too many promises about things AI could do that it really could not do. (This was about promoting expert systems. Where are they now?). Funding dried up and real work on natural language processing died too.
A lack of self-awareness there. "AI winter started" as if that was just like a freak storm.
"We were making some good progress" -- actually, they weren't. They were trying linguistic analysis which was a dead end.
- phailhaus 4y agoHe is using an industry-standard term for that time period, and admits that the field overpromised in that same quote: > AI winter was a result of too many promises about things AI could do that it really could not do.
- AlbertCory 4y agoYou're right, that paragraph is half-right. You picked one half; I picked the other.
- phailhaus 4y agoIt's written by the same person. I'm saying he's perfectly self-aware: AI winter started because the field overpromised. It's not something that just "happened" to them.