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Re:The Prospect of an AI Winter by pixl97 on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:46PM (#35333129)
I remember the hype cycle around this thing called the "internet" back in the day. People said it was going to take over the world, even though back then it was slow and kinda sucked.

And then it did.

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Re:The Prospect of an AI Winter by RandomLensman on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:51PM (#35333216)
Do you remember all the failed predictions, too?
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Re:The Prospect of an AI Winter by JohnFen on Monday March 27, 2023 @06:11PM (#35333469)
The internet was well-established and its worth proven many times over before it was ever open to the public, so well before the hype cycle happened.
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Re:The Prospect of an AI Winter by palata on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:55PM (#35333267)
> And then it did.

After the dotcom bubble exploded. Can't we call that a winter?

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Re:The Prospect of an AI Winter by pixl97 on Monday March 27, 2023 @06:29PM (#35333674)
What metrics do you want to go by? At least by internet use and user growth the dotcom bubble still saw massive amounts of new user growth and online time by users.

Was there a massive reduction in completely untenable .com's? But I'm not exactly sure if that's the definition of a winter, plenty of other internet based businesses did fine and kept growing in that time.

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Re:The Prospect of an AI Winter by palata on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:51AM (#35354840)
Sounds fair indeed
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Re:The Prospect of an AI Winter by diceduckmonk on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:39PM (#35343864)
I remember a hype cycle called “BigData”. Companies now realize data science that big of a step to business analytics of the 90s.
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Re:The Prospect of an AI Winter by lm28469 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @03:04AM (#35353647)
What about cryptos, VR, nosql, nfts, &c. ?
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Re:The Prospect of an AI Winter by zachnwhite on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:18AM (#35358529)
thank you
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