Yann LeCun has warned of hype causing an AI winter:
Spectrum: Hype is bad, sure, but why do you say it’s “dangerous”?
LeCun: It sets expectations for funding agencies, the public, potential customers, start-ups and investors, such that they believe that we are on the cusp of building systems that are as powerful as the brain, when in fact we are very far from that. This could easily lead to another “winter cycle.”
To clarify, that's not to the credit of the article. The author is basically taking the piss off people like LeCun, sarcastically describing them as "eminent, respectable, serious people" who "spoke in considered tones" (as if that's a bad thing) and wondering why they haven't issued a "mea culpa". At least, I find it a bit conceited to expect the people who built up a field of research from nothing to apologise for being worried that the field might be in danger from overhyping by a flood of newcomers who don't understand it.
Spectrum: Hype is bad, sure, but why do you say it’s “dangerous”?
LeCun: It sets expectations for funding agencies, the public, potential customers, start-ups and investors, such that they believe that we are on the cusp of building systems that are as powerful as the brain, when in fact we are very far from that. This could easily lead to another “winter cycle.”
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/artificial-intelligence/...
To clarify, that's not to the credit of the article. The author is basically taking the piss off people like LeCun, sarcastically describing them as "eminent, respectable, serious people" who "spoke in considered tones" (as if that's a bad thing) and wondering why they haven't issued a "mea culpa". At least, I find it a bit conceited to expect the people who built up a field of research from nothing to apologise for being worried that the field might be in danger from overhyping by a flood of newcomers who don't understand it.