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0 pointsTheLogothete10y ago0 comments

From what I've read, the winter was caused by complete lack of direction. No one knew how to even approach the problems. This doesn't seem to have changed at all.

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tim33310y ago· 2 in thread

We're getting some practical multi billion dollar products this time like self driving cars. That didn't happen the first time around - you couldn't build that sort of stuff with the 1970s computers.

TheLogotheteOP10y ago

That is true, but those products have little to do with OP is talking about. Self driving cars are using nothing more than a calcullator. A very sophisticated one, for sure, but it a calculator nonetheless. It is dubbed "AI" because it sounds sexier.

tim33310y ago

Yeah but the AI winter was mostly a period of low funding for AI due to disappointment at the research in the 70s and 80 not producing useful products. No one then was expecting human level intelligence but they were hoping to get some return on investment.

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