In the commercial world at least, the failed promises of the AI Winter continued to haunt AI research into the 2000s, as the New York Times reported in 2005: "Computer scientists and software engineers avoided the term artificial intelligence for fear of being viewed as wild-eyed dreamers."
至少在商业领域，导致AI之冬的那些未能兑现的承诺仍然困扰着AI研究，正如New York Times在2005年的一篇报道所说：“计算机科学家和软件工程师们避免使用人工智能一词，因为怕被认为是在说梦话。