AI winter isn't coming, says Baidu's Andrew Ng

Artificial intelligence is all the rage, with headline-grabbing advances being announced at a dizzying pace, and companies building dedicated AI teams as fast as they can. Andrew Ng, chief scientist at Baidu Research, and a major figure in the field of machine learning and AI, says improvements in computer processor design will keep performance advances and breakthroughs coming for the foreseeable future. "Multiple [hardware vendors] have been kind enough to share their roadmaps," Ng says. "I feel very confident that they are credible and we will get more computational power and faster networks in the next several years." The field of AI has gone through phases of rapid progress and hype in the past, quickly followed by a cooling in investment and interest, often referred to as "AI winters."