> I know that the first AI winter started by not getting enough funding. Well.. not quite. The funding was government funding. The opponents got behind things

> I know that the first AI winter started by not getting enough funding. Well.. not quite. The funding was government funding. The opponents got behind things like the lighthill report [1] and had the government funding cut. IMNSHO this was the right thing to do. The claims were overblown and it was wasting national funds in research. But it was pretty political. People stopped talking to each other for decades. I was a 12 year old in this time, My dad was in the trenches in the opposition to AI funding camp so that's my bias. Nothing which has come since makes me re-consider this, I might say that modern-day private capital JV/VC funding has been a bit silly, but in the end it's private funds so it's their call. [1] Lighthill, James (1973). "Artificial Intelligence: A General Survey" http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/reports/lighthill_report/p001.htm http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/reports/l...