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What is an AI winter?
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A period when the promises outran the results and funding was withdrawn. There have been two: the 1970s and the late 1980s.
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Why did expert systems fail?
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They captured what an expert SAID, not what an expert noticed, so they broke on the first case outside the rules.
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Why is now arguably different?
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Learning from data removes the cause of both winters — nobody has to write the exceptions down.
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The judgement to reuse
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The method is genuinely different; the expectations are not — and it is expectations that have collapsed before.
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