You're right. In fact, all of the AI related terms are declining among Google searches since 2004. Of course, that could be because the number of internet users is growing. Searches for "porn" are increasing.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=robotics%2C%20nanotechnology%2C%20artificial%20intelligence%2C%20neural%20network%2C%20machine%20learning&cmpt=q The data for books only goes to 2008. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Steve Richfield <[email protected]>wrote: > Matt, > > Note that this web site only analyzed to 2008, and you had the smoothing > set high. With smoothing set low to eliminate its artifacts, > "nanotechnology" is past its peak. > > Steve > ============ > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]>wrote: > >> We can search books back to 1820 to find trends. >> >> "cybernetics" peaked in 1969. >> "robotics" peaked in 1986. >> "artificial intelligence" peaked in 1989. >> "natural language processing" peaked in 1991. >> "neural network" peaked in 1997. >> "machine learning" still has a slow upward trend. >> "nanotechnology" has a fast upward trend. >> >> >> http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cybernetics%2Crobotics%2Cartificial+intelligence%2Cnatural+language+processing%2Cneural+network%2Cmachine+learning%2Cnanotechnology&year_start=1940&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share= >> >> >> -- >> -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] >> >> *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/3701026-786a0853> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
