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> I'd also argue that we're actually more likely to experience another AI winter.

We'll experience an AI winter again like we experienced an Internet winter in 2001-2004. Which is to say, not really at all. AI is now being widely commercialized for the benefit of consumers and businesses. That process will not stop, even if the hype train deflates before rising again at a later date. There is large, tangible commercial value in AI at the current general level of capability and near-term potential. That will result in pursuing maxing out whatever this era is capable of, before the next leap occurs at some point down the road. It's a progress track of higher highs during the exploratory boom and higher lows during the winter.