We’ve Seen AI Hype Cycles Before. They Didn’t End Well.

There have been AI booms before. From the 1950s to 1970s, as technologists at Dartmouth predicted that human-level intelligence was just a generation away. By the mid-1970s, the first AI winter had set in. But, by the 1980s, “Expert Systems,” an attempt to codify human knowledge, became all the rage. The systems proved mostly useless,...