Posted 2/29/2024, 1:39:54 PM
AI's Recurring Journey From Hype to Disillusionment
- AI has gone through boom-bust cycles since the 1950s, with grand claims followed by failures and disillusionment
- The Perceptron in 1958 was an early neural network that promised humanlike machines but failed to deliver
- Expert systems in the 1980s also failed to match human intelligence due to inability to handle new information
- Modern deep learning has brought new progress but faces similar knowledge acquisition issues as past AI
- Claims of human-level AI today echo unfulfilled promises of the past, lacking idiom/metaphor understanding