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AI Winters

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Twice — the mid-1970s and late 1980s — the field promised more than it delivered, and funding and confidence withdrew: the AI winters.

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A skeptical UK government report and a negative US defense study cut the first era's funding; the expert-systems bust ended the second.

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The winters are the base rate behind every forecast you will ever read about this field.