<i>&gt;The &quot;breakthrough&quot; AI of today is deep learning on massive amounts on data applied to two areas - speech&#x2F;NLP and vision.</i><p>What of IBM&#x27;s Watson? It&#x27;s one of the premier AI projects in the world, its specialty is neither of those two areas, and it utilizes deep learning on massive amounts of data.<p>&gt;<i>How this generalizes to a super intelligence that can take over the planet is so strange.</i><p>No one&#x27;s really saying it does, just that recent progress in AI has accelerated such that it seems probable that even more progress is imminent.<p>&gt;<i>The correct response is to say that you don&#x27;t know anything about AI.</i><p>I really tire of this constant appeal to authority, it&#x27;s arrogant at best. By that same logic, Nick Bostrom shouldn&#x27;t have even written his latest book due to a lack of technical knowledge.