Where AI is already rivaling humans

Every decade seems to have its technological buzzwords: we had personal computers in 1980s; Internet and worldwide web in 1990s; smart phones and social media in 2000s; and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning in this decade. As mentioned in a previous article [56], the 1950-82 era saw a new field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) being born, lot of pioneering research being done, massive hype being created but eventually fizzling out. The 1983-2004 era saw research and development in AI gradually picking up and leading to a few key accomplishments (e.g., Deep Blue beating Kasparov in Chess) and commercialized solutions (e.g., Cyberknife), but its pace really picked up during 2005 and 2010 [57]. Since 2011, AI research and development has been witnessing hypergrowth, and researchers have created several AI solutions that are almost as good as – or better than – humans in several domains; these include playing games, healthcare, computer vision and object recognition, speech to text conversion, speaker recognition, and improved robots and chat-bots for solving specific problems. The table in the Appendix lists key AI solutions that are rivaling humans in various domains and six of these solutions are described below.