The OP is obviously not keeping up with the field and has lot to learn about scientific approach. He basically uses the count of tweets from AndrewNg and crashes from risk-taking companies as indicator of "AI winter". He should have tried to look in to metrics such as number of papers, number of people getting in to field, number of dollars in VC money, number of commercial products using DL/RL etc. But you see, that's a lot of work and your conclusion might not align with whatever funky title you had in mind. Being an armchair opinion guy throwing link bait titles is much more easier.
I'll happily read your next post where you will include all of those. In fact amount of VC money spent in that field would only support my claim. And the number of papers is irrelevant. There were thousands of papers about Hopfield network in the 90's and where are all of them now? You see, all the things you point out is the surface. What really matters is that self driving cars crash and kill people, and no one has any idea how to fix it.
