You never hear about ML or “AI” in the mainstream any more, not since about 2017. AlphaGo and self-driving was exciting, then the self-driving started to struggle and people twigged that the self-play approach cannot be translated to applications where you don’t have a ‘game’ i.e. a perfect model of the environment’s response to actions. The only things that make the media now are garbage from OpenAI like “We PuBliSheD a BoOk written by our garbled-text generator”. So I just wonder what people think about whether we are on the way down to a crash, or just past it and quietly plateauing in productivity, this time around the “AI” hype cycle?