The Risk of a New AI Winter

History has not been kind to AI pioneers who overpromise and underdeliver

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Is winter coming?

I speak of an “AI winter”, of course.

They’re part of the boom-bust cycle that we’ve seen in AI history. During an AI boom, computer scientists and firms invent new techniques that seem exciting and powerful. Tech firms use…