AI winter

noun

Etymology

By analogy to the idea of a nuclear winter.

Definitions

  1. A period of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence research.

    • A lot of people are talking about — actually have been talking about — a particular scenario of the artificial intelligence industry known as the "AI Winter."
    • Their products offered little business value at the time, and so the commercial enthusiasm ended in disappointment, leading to a period now referred to as the “A.I. Winter.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for AI winter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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