The mind-blowing AI announcement from Google that you probably missed.

Since originally writing this article, many people with far more expertise in these fields than myself have indicated that, while impressive, what Google have achieved is evolutionary, not revolutionary. In the very least, it's fair to say that I'm guilty of anthropomorphising in parts of the text. I've left the article's content unchanged, because I think it's interesting to compare the gut reaction I had with the subsequent comments from experts in the field. I strongly encourage readers to browse the comments beneath the version of this piece published on Medium.com In the closing weeks of 2016, Google published an article which quietly sailed under most people's radar.