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Re:AI winter by ankurdhama on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @11:15PM (#13028018)
Gonna happen again and labelling images is not going to stop it.
Re:AI winter by geooooooooobox on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @08:00PM (#13027081)
aka the fall of lisp
Re:AI winter by hga on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @08:35PM (#13027269)
According to the article, before that, one professor's report lead to a near extinction level AI winter in the U.K. for a decade, which also effected Continental research funding. So more than one major winter.

As someone who rode part of the Lisp Machine wave in the early 1980s, I must say the all the "machine learning" ... ferment seems to be too weak a word, that I read about on HN nowadays is heartening.