The Last Defense against Another AI Winter

We have been experiencing an "AI Spring" (e.g. This was due to technological breakthroughs, commercialization of Deep Learning, and cheap computation. Such uptick in interest in AI was largely driven by the work from Alex Krizhevsky (a student of Geoff Hinton and co-worker of mine) and investment from firms like Google and Nvidia. We had similar AI Springs every decade since the 60s. However, AI Winters, defined by 1) skepticism and 2) cut in funding, followed every time.