AI, like regular I, is in the eye of the beholder. It&#x27;s a moving target. If something performs surprisingly well compared with what you&#x27;re used to, it&#x27;s AI. Once you get used to it, like decision trees, it&#x27;s ordinary tech again.<p>There&#x27;s (at least) one thing that could change this, which is that the machines get so complex that we can&#x27;t really grok the details any more. You could argue that this is beginning to happen in Deep Learning, where it can be hard for humans to map the functions being performed later in the network to anything with intuitive semantics relative to the problem.<p>Perhaps in retrospect we will consider the Singularity  not a spectacular thing where the machines suddenly got super smart, but a more mundane thing where most of community gave up trying to understand the machines and just use them ever after as black boxes.