AI Winter: Deep Learning and its Discontents - Deeplearning4j: Open-source, Distributed Deep Learning for the JVM

An AI winter is a time when funding and support for artificial intelligence research and commercial ventures dries up. AI went through various winters in the 20th century, when early promise turned to disillusion, and the best technologists turned their minds to other problems. Though many definitions of AI are overly vague, it is an important technology that receives a lot of media attention. That means a lot of people have opinions about it even if they are unfamiliar with how it works and what its limits are. This post gives you a framework by which to interpret opinions about AI, to situate someone who holds an AI opinion stands and understand who their allies and opponents are.