> The field is just too young with too many things as of yet untried The field has been around since the 50s with various summers and winters, with each summer

> The field is just too young with too many things as of yet untried The field has been around since the 50s with various summers and winters, with each summer having people saying it's now too big to fail, with ever increasing resources and time being spent on it, only for it to eventually stagnate again for some time. If there is one field in computer science I wouldn't call "too young", it would be AI. The first "true" AI winters happened in the 1970s/1980s, and second one in the late 1980s. You seem to have missed some of them by a large margin. It's the natural movement of ecosystems that are hyped a lot. They get hyped until there is no more air, and it goes back into "building foundations" mode until someone hits gold and the cycle repeats all over again.