The state of AI in 2019

It's a common psychological phenomenon: repeat any word enough times, and it eventually loses all meaning, disintegrating like soggy tissue into phonetic nothingness. For many of us, the phrase "artificial intelligence" fell apart in this way a long time ago. AI is everywhere in tech right now, said to be powering everything from your TV to your toothbrush, but never have the words themselves meant less. It shouldn't be this way. While the phrase "artificial intelligence" is unquestionably, undoubtedly misused, the technology is doing more than ever -- for both good and bad.