AI Winter Is Coming? Four Fallacies In AI Research

"Perhaps expectations are too high, and… this will eventually result in disaster. Suppose that five years from now, funding collapses miserably as autonomous vehicles fail to roll. And there's a big backlash so that you can't get money for anything connected with AI. Everybody hurriedly changes the names of their research projects to something else. This condition is called the AI Winter," said AI expert Drew McDermott in 1984.