Comment by benterix
1 day ago
Not sure if you're being sincere or sarcastic but some of us have lived through several AI winters now. And the fact that such a phenomenon exists is because of this terrible amount of hype the topic gets whenever any progress is made.
Which ones? At least in the last 4 years, there was no AI winter.
The late 70s, again in the late 80s. See wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
Yeah and if you look at the blocking factors at that time (data, compute) these type of limits currently are non existend.
There is a difference to be acknowledged: in the 70s/80s the whole world didn't suddenly start to shift to AI right?
So why do so many smart and/or rich people push this? Hype? Yeah sure but hype was here for crypto too.
I bet its an undelying understanding and the right time with the right components: Massive capital for playing this game long enough to see through the required initial investment, internet for fast data sharing, massive compute for the amount of data and compute you need, real live business relevant results (it already disrupts jobs) etc.
History started well before 4 years ago
Yeah but this AI wave has nothing to do how we came to AI winter in the 70s or 80s.
The necessary amount of Compute, interconnect (internet), money, researcher etc. wasn't available at that time.
and we did not invest the most amount of money and compute and brain power as we are doing right now. This is unseen.
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