How To Avoid the Next AI Winter: Functionalism, Robustness, and the AI Hype Cycle

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1. How to Avoid the Next AI Winter Functionalism, Robustness, and the AI Hype Cycle Greg Borenstein MIT Media Lab, Playful Systems @atduskgreg
2. [AI is] getting a computer to do things which, when done by people, are said to involve intelligence. – John McCarthy
5. “Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning”, Minh et al, 2013
8. The first part of a sigmoid looks like an exponential. – Neil Gershenfeld
9. Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue… A-y-y-y! – Disco Stu
10. Ray Kurzweil
12. End Serial Silver Bulletism Unbundle Work on Robustness
18. Thanks. @atduskgreg