Pivot to AI: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
Since the buzzword “artificial intelligence” was coined in the 1950s, AI has gone through several boom and bust cycles.
A new technological approach looks interesting and gets a few results. It gets ridiculously hyped up and lands funding. The tech turns out to be not so great, so the funding gets cut. The down cycles are called AI winters.
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