By the end of the 1980s and early 1990s, despite the neural network renaissance and other AI efforts, the field remained essentially at a low ebb—people stopped identifying themselves as AI researchers, and AI was 'really at a very low ebb for quite a long time.'

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Speaker

Stephen Wolfram

Evidence Quote

By I would say end of the 80s early 90s this stuff basically hadn't worked out. Um, and people said, 'Ah, AI is is doomed.' And everybody was kind of, you know, everybody who might have been saying they were doing AI didn't say they were doing AI anymore.

Source

The AI Expert: "Super AI Will Be Unstoppable!" – What’s Coming NEXT | Stephen WolframSean Kim
Created: 8/11/2026, 5:31:42 AM

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