[mindcrime]

Sure, you can define "the AI Boom" in such as a way as to say "The AI Boom is over." No problem. But... taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture, I'd say that any slight, contemporary, dip in interest in AI is just that: a dip. A momentary blip at a point in time, hardly the harbinger of any larger trend. There's no reason I see to expect anything less than for AI research to continue, and for AI to become progressively more and more useful.

So no, not in an bigger, more universal sense, would I agree that "the AI Boom is over". If anything, it's just starting.