This blog gets passed around a lot recently. While I do draw value from the thorough observations of developments, the amount of text the author spends on shallow negativity can feel like the same waste of time as the overhyping PR machine he is reacting to.

There is without doubt something novel in the successes of convnets for sensory perception, deep Q-learning for decades-old and new game problems, artificial curiosity, recent machine translation, generative models and their various applications. Recent models also found their way into for-profit companies. It’s legit to be fascinated by this, and I’d rather stand on the side that doesn’t remain in their cave.

AI research may have picked all current low-hanging fruits or hit a wall either soon or in ten years, nobody can know yet, so there is no reason to run around predicting the future painted in only positive or negative light.