The late 70s, again in the late 80s. See wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

Yeah and if you look at the blocking factors at that time (data, compute) these type of limits currently are non existend.

There is a difference to be acknowledged: in the 70s/80s the whole world didn't suddenly start to shift to AI right?

So why do so many smart and/or rich people push this? Hype? Yeah sure but hype was here for crypto too.

I bet its an undelying understanding and the right time with the right components: Massive capital for playing this game long enough to see through the required initial investment, internet for fast data sharing, massive compute for the amount of data and compute you need, real live business relevant results (it already disrupts jobs) etc.

History started well before 4 years ago

Yeah but this AI wave has nothing to do how we came to AI winter in the 70s or 80s.

The necessary amount of Compute, interconnect (internet), money, researcher etc. wasn't available at that time.

and we did not invest the most amount of money and compute and brain power as we are doing right now. This is unseen.

Ah, the youth...

"The new economy" also didn't have anything to do with the previous one. Turns out that it crashed just as well.

I'm not an economist but at least as an european person, I currently do see a huge restructuring going on. A shift away from the USA to China. But I never voiced an opinion about that.

I do follow ML/AI/AGI though for a decade by now and read a lot about Neuronal networks, LLMs, etc. in a broad spectrum.

My prediction regarding Crypto/blockchain was true too.

We will see how it plays out. I'm open for both, but I think it would be naive to ignore whats going on and its way to soon to assume there is a AI winter coming soon.

We sitll want to see what Mythos can do and a distilled version of it.