> In general, there seems to be a big difference between a dead horse and something being unfashionable. That is subjective and shifts with time as we have see

> In general, there seems to be a big difference between a dead horse and something being unfashionable. That is subjective and shifts with time as we have seen multiple times in physics and AI. You don't get to decide what is dead. AI researchers as a group decide that and nature agrees/disagrees. > By 2010 digit and text recognition was already long in use. It used hidden layers, so it was a form of deep learning. False. I worked in that field and deployed production systems on mobile devices. SVMs with hand crafted were the rage with tons of hand crafted systems. No one serious used deep learning. Even if it was used in digit recognition, that is just one use case compared to dozens of uses cases for symbolic systems (e.g. hardware verification) in 2023. I don't blame folks for thinking that LLMs are the answer for everything (they maybe but we don't know yet). Folks felt the same about 1950s systems all the way till the AI winter.