How design can help bridge the AI gap

Mark Zuckerberg's 2016 personal goal is to build an Iron Man-style AI. Eric Schmidt has been musing about a future with "Eric" and "Not-Eric," in which Eric is himself and Not-Eric is "this digital thing that helps me." Phil Libin has been calling AI bots the most important tech trend of the year. I'm pretty excited about AI too. But it's hard to square this enthusiasm with the present-day performance of machine intelligence.