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Along similar lines, we did some work investigating public perception of AI over the past thirty years: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.04904.pdf

From Figure 1, it's clear we are now in a boom.

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Thanks for the study - Figure 1 is impressively self-explanatory. It's interesting to note that the article's author Robin Hanson[1] worked in AI & ML industry roles starting at the peak of the last AI boom in '84 and witnessed the AI winter through to '93.

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