I think it’s time to change the meaning of the term AI winter to its opposite. Some day soon “self-driving” will refer to “driving by yourself”, as opposed to “autonomous driving”. One will take their antique self-driving car to a “driving range”, safely away from modern autonomous cars. Note that this meaning change already happened a few times, for example a “computer” used to refer to a person doing rote calculations by hand.
Anyway, the AI Winter will have the meaning of “the winter of 2022/2023 when everything changed”.
It’s interesting to note that the term AI winter was inspired by the notion of a nuclear winter. AI researchers in the 1980s used it to describe a calamity that would befall themselves, namely a lack of funding, and, true, both concepts involve stagnation and decline. But a nuclear winter happens after nuclear weapons are used.
I think it’s time to change the meaning of the term AI winter to its opposite. Some day soon “self-driving” will refer to “driving by yourself”, as opposed to “autonomous driving”. One will take their antique self-driving car to a “driving range”, safely away from modern autonomous cars. Note that this meaning change already happened a few times, for example a “computer” used to refer to a person doing rote calculations by hand.
Anyway, the AI Winter will have the meaning of “the winter of 2022/2023 when everything changed”.
>Some day soon “self-driving” will refer to “driving by yourself”, as opposed to “autonomous driving”.
Interestingly enough, that’s what it was used to mean the first time the term appeared in popular culture, in the film Demolition Man (1993).
But when will my Saturn-branded car drive me to Taco Bell?
Footnote 4 seems relevant here!