Second AI Winter Begins
Era: AI Winter · 1970s–1990s
In the late 1980s, expectations that had run ahead of results went unmet. Lisp machine makers lost out to general-purpose workstations, several AI companies closed, and DARPA’s funding for basic AI research fell between 1987 and 1989.
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The Quest for Artificial Intelligence
Cambridge University Press · Source type: Secondary summary
Nilsson places the "AI winter" in the mid- to late 1980s, records AI company closures and a fall in DARPA’s basic AI budget between 1987 and 1989, and describes Lisp machine makers losing out to other workstation providers; "winter" boundaries remain interpretive.
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