Wikipedia puts the development of Bayesian networks in the 1980's. As for Hinton: I didn't mean to say we had zero progress since the 1980's (though admittedly, that's what "stalled" technically means), but rather that after a flurry of rapid development we hit a point of diminishing pace of development, as all technologies do.
I don't know if AI is blossoming right now, but all the interesting things I've seen in the field (Watson, self-driving cars) are not theoretical breakthroughs, but rather new applications. I don't think the technology in self-driving cars gets us fundamentally closer to human-scale AI.
I don't know if AI is blossoming right now, but all the interesting things I've seen in the field (Watson, self-driving cars) are not theoretical breakthroughs, but rather new applications. I don't think the technology in self-driving cars gets us fundamentally closer to human-scale AI.