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How the AI Boom Went Bust

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 67, Issue 2

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3634901

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Fallout from an exploding bubble of hype triggered the real AI Winter in the late 1980s.

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How the AI Boom Went Bust
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
  2. Machine learning
2. Theory of computation
  1. Theory and algorithms for application domains
    1. Machine learning theory

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Communications of the ACM Volume 67, Issue 2

February 2024

110 pages

EISSN:1557-7317

DOI:10.1145/3641526

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