Where AI has made real progress

We've been overselling current capabilities of AI for years, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a bright future. That's perhaps why Stanford University researchers conceived of a "One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence" (100 years!) back in 2016, with plans to update the report every five years through 2116, charting the progress of AI along the way. Five years after the inaugural report, the study authors recently released the second report. The TL;DR? We've made "remarkable progress" in just five years, on the back of ever-improving data infrastructure, yet we still fall "far short of the field's founding aspiration of recreating full human-like intelligence in machines." What we are discovering, however, is the importance of meshing human and machine to achieve better outcomes.