[mdp2021]

Hype to some - but without any hype, ANN are entities that show huge potential, are a still fresh, explored only for a fragment territory after so many decades, and present very intriguing mysteries in the translation between a network snapshot and the encoded knowledge.

So, an area fully deserving interest.

Of course the enthusiasm brings a lot of unduly expectation, unfruitful trial and errors etc. - just normal expectable accompaniments. They are not the most important phenomenon, unless the interest is posed for the wrong reasons (industrial implementations pretending the technology is a universal solution).

By the way: "hype cycles" have occurred many times in the history of AI. All experience for collection.