You’re over emphasizing a particular historical fable. Yes, some AI hype has happened. We’ve all read the “summer project” of McCarthy, Shannon, et al.
But all these recent advances are not just hype. It’s real. Anyone who has been following this area for a long time knows that some big problems (like large-scale image classification) have been solved, and in an orderly way that builds on prior work going back to the 1990s and before. (My ML PhD was in 1995.)
Nobody here is referring to the “singularity” - that is obviously speculation that has nothing to do with the CMU program.
But all these recent advances are not just hype. It’s real. Anyone who has been following this area for a long time knows that some big problems (like large-scale image classification) have been solved, and in an orderly way that builds on prior work going back to the 1990s and before. (My ML PhD was in 1995.)
Nobody here is referring to the “singularity” - that is obviously speculation that has nothing to do with the CMU program.