Artificial intelligence is in a bubble: Here's why we should build it anyway

Stephen Piron is co-founder of Dessa, a Toronto-based AI company formerly known as DeepLearni.ng If you want to get an idea of the future of artificial intelligence, consider the internet mania of the late 1990s. I studied computer science at the University of Toronto in 1999 and had an intimate view of the heady days of the internet's hype. The internet and how it would change the world was on everyone's minds and professors were always quick to remind us teenage undergrads that we'd be the rock stars of our time. Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, Calif., on Tuesday, May 8, 2018.