[nubg]

Most of "AI" before ChatGPT was just researchers wasting public grant money, eg BLOOM.

[gordonhart]

Easy to forget but there was a ton of industry+investor excitement around computer vision from ~2015-2021, to the extent that the "MLops" niche sprung up around it. This was called AI at the time, and mostly went out the window when general-pupose pretrained models arrived.

[stuxnet79]

I would place the beginning of the computer vision hype at 2012 or so when the AlexNet paper came out.

Also an aside, it is mind boggling to me how pre-2021 ML is now ancient history.

[_verandaguy]

This is ignoring ML which has existed for decades.

Neural networks, computer vision, sentiment analysis, all of these and more have provided an unspeakable amount of value over the years.

[bigstrat2003]

And now it's private companies wasting investor money. Not sure there's much difference between the two.