Andrej Karpathy says AI has experienced several major shifts that rapidly changed the field and expects further shifts, given their surprisingly regular occurrence.

“stuff that happened I mean AI is actually like so wonderful because there have been a number of I would say seismic shifts That were like the entire field has sort of like suddenly looks a different way Right and I guess I've maybe lived through two or three of those and I still think there will continue to be some because they come with some kind of like almost surprising regularity Well my when my career began of course like when I started to work on deep learning when I became interested in deep learning This was just kind of like by chance of being right next to Jeff Hinton at University of Toronto”