‘Did the Hype Associated with Early AI Research Lead to Alternative Routes Towards Intelligent Interactive Computer Systems Being Overlooked?’
By Chris Reynolds, chris@codil.co.uk
Introductory statements for panel session "AI – Future Realities" chaired by John Handby at "Archives of IT Forum on the Histories of the Internet," London, 9 January 2024
Artificial Intelligence research has involved chasing one heavily funded and overhyped paradigm after another, with intervening AI winters. A study of the commercially unsuccessful projects can tell you a lot about the economic and political environment that decided which projects should get funded and which would be abandoned,
