John Oliver on the state of AI

These programs are NOT AI. They are procedural engines specifically designed to generate output to that parses close to human in order to appear as such, backed up with deliberately misleading, hyperbolic, and breathless venture capitalist PR and equally breathless and incredibly credulous reporting by news media who no longer put in any effort to investigate a story behind regurgitating a press release and getting a few quotes. I suggest you download Dwarf Fortress and run world generation in it. That is an incredibly sophisticated procedural engine that generates an entire world from its geology and climate all the way up to its history, with politics, wars, and even trade that, during generation, is tracked down to individual items in a meaningful way (Check the developer logs on the site for the 15th of May 2019 and the 22nd for a detailed breakdown when tracking a bug). It is a remarkably capable and believable engine, but it is not AI.