The Instant Rise of Machine Intelligence?

Currently the news are filled with articles about the rise of machine intelligence, artificial intelligence and deep learning. For the average reader it seems that there was this single technical breakthrough that made AI possible. While I strongly believe in the fascinating opportunities around deep learning for image recognition, natural language processing and even end-to-end "intelligent" systems (e.g. First I read about tensorflow (for R) and watched a number of great talks about it. Do not miss Nuts and Bolts of Applying Deep Learning (Andrew Ng) and Tensorflow and deep learning - without at PhD by Martin Görner. Second I started to look at publications and error improvements on public datasets.