Too Long; Didn't Read
Journalists love stories about AI. It allows them to come up with titles like “<a href="https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/25/deepmind-create-ai-imagination/" target="_blank">machines use imagination to solve problems</a>” and “<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/22/googles-ai-translation-tool-seems-to-have-invented-its-own-secret-internal-language/" target="_blank">neural network invents language</a>”. An alien reading those stories would think that humans have finally cracked it. We must be in some golden age of computing. That same alien would be shocked to find out that at any given office on any given day the problems are much more along the lines of “my CMS is driving me crazy; where is the image I uploaded?”, “I can’t download my emails again” and “I wish there was a CRM that actually worked!”. How come AI is not solving all these problems?