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If you think AI stalled out in the 80s, you deserve a LOL right back. We didn't even have Bayesian nets in the eighties. AI has made huge progress since the eig
by JamesArgo 13y ago
If you think AI stalled out in the 80s, you deserve a LOL right back. We didn't even have Bayesian nets in the eighties. AI has made huge progress since the eighties, look at Geoff Hinton's work, look at all Sebastian Thrun has done with automated cars - something many experts thought would take 50 years in the late nineties. AI is just now blossoming. It's a very exciting field at the moment.
- dragonwriter 13y agoI think what happened is that it fell out of popular usage to call most AI applications "AI", and a lot of the more extreme claims about the near-term potential of AI died out, so there is something of a perception in some corners that the field had died out.
- rayiner 13y agoWikipedia puts the development of Bayesian networks in the 1980's. As for Hinton: I didn't mean to say we had zero progress since the 1980's (though admittedly, that's what "stalled" technically means), but rather that after a flurry of rapid development we hit a point of diminishing pace of development, as all technologies do. I don't know if AI is blossoming right now, but all the interesting things I've seen in the field (Watson, self-driving cars) are not theoretical breakthroughs, but rather new applications. I don't think the technology in self-driving cars gets us fundamentally closer to human-scale AI.