[ddoolin]

In your opinion, is this a solution to the "AI winter" that is often talked about? I'm an engineer but not involved in AI but things like meta-reinforcement seem, from the info/perspective you've given, to address the problem, at least partially.

[andreyk]

I think AI winter is unlikely to come about this time since non-RL stuff (supervised learning) has been so successful and useful.

[Iv]

Yes, some techs are overhyped (chatbots, finance stuff) but deeplearning has delivered a lot of incredible working applications. It is not just hot air or marketing hype.

[backpropaganda]

Expert systems were not just hot air or marketing hype. Usefulness of a subset of new AI technology is irrelevant. A winter or contraction is caused by expectations not being met, and it seems, at least to me, that investors/funders have already started expecting superhuman performance in image/speech recognition, and there's a lot of expectation even in robotics, which will probably not be met by actual results any time soon.