Can AI Live Up to the Hype? – We Asked an Expert NetApp Blog

In the past, artificial intelligence (AI) has been unable to measure up to the lofty expectations set by the thinking machines in the movies, such as HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Instead, the technology repeatedly climbed the "hype cycle" only to fall into a "trough of despair." This is Part 1 of an interview with Monty Barlow, director of machine learning at Cambridge Consultants, and he reveals why this time is different--and why there's no going back. At Cambridge Consultants, we've been doing AI long enough to have lived through several cycles of hype and disappointment. The 1990s were a time of great excitement around AI.