Rather than spreading &quot;meta&quot; hype about AI being hyped. I highly recommend reading up on recent advances due to Deep Learning and ideas of Neural Processing. To summarize briefly, a lot of core problems in applied machine learning, such as image recognition&#x2F;segmentation&#x2F;understanding, Natural Language Processing saw a significant improvement in performance over last five years, often bringing them to near human performance. This improvement was possible due to new approaches that were rooted in empiricism, availability of large datasets, powerful GPUs and algorithms such as Deep Convolutional &amp; Recurrent Neural Networks. Combined with the advances in Drones, Batteries, Cloud computing &amp; Smartphones a lot of application which previously would have been impossible to deploy can now be quickly deployed.<p>Here is a good article that goes over the topic: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectrum.ieee.org&#x2F;automaton&#x2F;robotics&#x2F;artificial-intelligence&#x2F;facebook-ai-director-yann-lecun-on-deep-learning" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectrum.ieee.org&#x2F;automaton&#x2F;robotics&#x2F;artificial-intel...</a>