[KKKKkkkk1]

The term AI winter is IMHO misrepresenting the true state of affairs. Since day one, the field's modus operandi was one of overpromising and underdelivering. That has not changed. We see how Alphabet plows billions of dollars into DeepMind [1] and all they get in return is a series of game-playing bots. If unproductive activities are defunded, this creates an opportunity for productive ones to thrive. "Winter" is not a suitable word to describe this.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/deepminds-losses-future-artifici...

[andreyk]

This is a ridiculously reductive take on DeepMind... they produce a TON of great research, and have helped advance the state of RL considerably (speaking as an AI researcher here, having read many of their papers). Google should be commended for investing in largely basic AI research, even if once in a while they make a PR splash out of it, IMO.