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Artificial intelligence has been a brainless idiot for more than a half-century, but humanity has kept trying to replicate intelligence with the fervor of “Young Frankenstein” Now, technological rigor has delivered AI from the murky ferment of hype and science fiction. Amazon’s amazing customer service bot pretty much knows why you are chatting with it even before you type. AI has become ubiquitous, but it is not close to human. AI takes a completely different approach from humans to tracking packages and playing chess.