Chartis: AI: A crashing wave, or a gradual flood…? Opinion

It seems like a day can't go by without a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) story in the headlines. AI is learning to beat Go champions and drive cars. The impression is of an unstoppable tide, one that will crash over every area of life and technology with equal effect. This vision is reinforced by pundits who rarely deviate from the extremes of breathless utopian futurism or apocalyptic doom. It is, by and large, a collection of statistical processes used to build systems that possess a combination of rules-based and iterative or adaptive capabilities.