[friendly_chap]

As a techie who is not involved in machine learning, I see these AI articles coming up and I wonder if it's me or AI is indeed on the rise after such a long stagnation?

Is this newfound excitement and interest in AI fuelled by actual, objective advances?

EDIT: Keep up the good work, I sincerely hope that the work you do will make the world a better place. I wish I could help somehow.

[aheifets]

New medical discoveries aside, we're seeing self-driving cars and speech recognition that runs on a cell phone. I grew up reading about those kinds of things in Asimov, so I personally find the progress pretty exciting.