Comment Re:Anyone cares to comment? (Score 2) 32
I'd like anyone in the know to name 3 things that AI is successfully doing today somewhere in or around our daily lives. Activities that require thinking or reasoning ability and that were once performed by humans, but no longer.
NLP (Natural Language Processing): Be it a Voice Assistant(Alexa, Siri) or Voice Prompts while calling customer service.
Automatic Assistance in Cars: Be it Tesla's automation; or more generic automatic braking assist and lane following. It is still sensor input being evaluated for dangers and a computer taking an action that a human would, but usually faster.
Advertisements (Deep Learning): Someone I know walked into a store recently, didn't buy anything, and got a physical mailing the next week thanking them for their visit. The data sharing between phone companies, location services, stores and advertisers is a vast network of interconnectedn-ess that is arguably an AI system.
Computer vision: Camera face identification/tracking and then focusing on that face; Facebook/Snapchat silly face filters; Facebook face identification and name tagging.
What I learned while getting a degree in Cognitive Science, is that AI is a moving target. What you consider mundane computer assistance today, was the future of AI of a decade ago. It seems like we are never there, but AI is everywhere. Granted, it is domain-specific AI, and not General AI(consciousness), but it is still technically the field of Artificial Intelligence. The goal is to replicate aspects of the human mind, which is advancing rapidly, as seen in the above list.