Is Artificial Intelligence Over-Hyped In 2017?

Is AI over-hyped in 2017? Whether or not artificial intelligence (AI) is overhyped depends upon which community you are talking about. If you are talking about the academic research community, its not over-hyped. There have been major breakthroughs in AI over the past couple of years, and the celebration is certainly justified. In my own area of object recognition, we went from 35% accuracy (mean average precision on Pascal VOC) to above 65% in just 3-4 years.