How Companies Can Succeed in AI Winter: Jeff Kagan

Industry observers say we're about to enter the next AI Winter. Artificial Intelligence emerged more than 60 years ago, and in that timeframe we have seen many such seasons. While I don't believe the coming winter will be as severe as the others, by all accounts, it's coming. The first AI Winter happened in the 1970s, when, after more than a decade of heavy funding of academic research by the U.S. Department of Defense, the government pulled back. It became clear that advancing AI would be much more challenging and expensive than originally foreseen.