&gt; ... often bringing them to near human performance<p>That&#x27;s quite far from the truth. You could say that they are now at the point where they are able to respond to direct, simple questions&#x2F;commands.<p>I am not saying that we haven&#x27;t seen some great advances in machine learning and language algorithms, but they are still a far cry from anything I&#x27;d call intelligent. NLP is still rather primitive (although impressive compared to where we were two decades ago), and bees are able to navigate better than self-driving cars or drones, yet I&#x27;m not sure they would or should be called intelligent.<p>I have no problem with using the term AI for current technology -- which is certainly cool and useful -- as long as we understand that the &quot;I&quot; is little more than a marketing gimmick. Otherwise people may think that these algorithms are the first step towards &quot;true&quot; intelligence -- i.e. that true intelligence is some version N.0 of those algorithms, that it is a complicated yet natural extension of them -- and at this point the knowledge we have to say whether this is true or not is pretty much zero.