Current AI paradigm might become for IT what String theory is for Physics.
“What happened next was not a reasoned evaluation of competing paradigms. It was a gold rush. Google hired Geoffrey Hinton. Facebook hired Yann LeCun. Baidu hired Andrew Ng. The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, which had quietly funded neural network research through two decades of indifference, suddenly found its bet paying off spectacularly. Venture capital followed. PhD students followed the venture capital. Conference papers followed the PhD students.”