Comment by misterman0

The progress academics continuously make in NLP take us closer and closer to a local maxima that, when we reach it will be the mark of the longest and coldest AI winter ever experienced by man, because of how far we are from a global maxima and, progress made by academically untrained researchers will, in the end, be what melts the snow, because of how "out-of-the-current-AI-box" they are in their theories about language and intelligence in general.