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Are we facing an ‘AI Winter’ or is our relationship with AI evolving?

And the critique has not just been about limitations in algorithms themselves, but also on the dangers of a too naive application of artificial intelligence. Books such as Artificial Unintelligence by Meredith Broussard and Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil cover how if sufficient care is not taken these systems can pick up, learn and perpetuate the bias that exists in the real world.

That said, as a tool for automating intelligence, AI can also quickly come to the rescue in uncertain times.

What is an AI winter?

An AI winter refers to how advances in AI are cyclical, often cruelly so. It was coined in 1984 by two AI researchers who had suffered from the collapse of US government funding for AI in the 1970s. They argued that AI researchers should be wary of how private or public sector enthusiasm for AI could suddenly plummet without warning. Indeed, they proved to be right by how the 1980s excitement around expert systems peaked and collapsed within a few years.

What about the human factor?

Our relationship with AI will follow a natural course from the sound and fury of techno-utopianism and dystopian outcries to a settling down into a much quieter, more widespread application on our own terms.

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