There's Nothing Like a Huge Public Failure to Boost Interest in AI

Summary: We are swept up by the rapid advances in AI and deep learning, and tend to laugh off AI's failures as good fodder for YouTube videos. But those failures are starting to add up. It's time to take a hard look at the weaknesses in AI and where that's leading us. Trying to spot new themes and directions I was trolling through some data and I found this. This is the Google Trends chart of searches for'Artificial Intelligence' for the last four years.