No, There Will Be No AI Winter

A fun pastime for armchair philosophers of technology is whether the entire field of artificial intelligence, so riven with hype at the moment, will any day now experience a crushing fall-off in enthusiasm and a consequent collapse in funding. It's the notion of an "AI winter," and it has hit the field a couple of times in the past forty years, right after big breakthroughs. The answer is No, there won't be an AI winter. It's different for a simple reason: artificial intelligence, in its latest incarnation, called deep learning, has become "industrialized." For the first time ever, AI is part of how companies work.