Today's Deep Learning "AI" Is Machine Learning Not Magic

To the general public, today's "AI" technologies are nothing short of magic. Algorithms that can eerily understand video, images, speech, and text, translate between languages with uncanny accuracy, drive cars, play video games, find cancer and even best humans at complex strategy games by developing novel moves that no human had ever devised. Groundbreaking new milestones are crossed almost daily. Computer science programs are flooded with students eager to become AI experts and companies can't hire enough AI programmers. It would seem the era of AI has truly arrived.