content: No it wasn't, not at all. One thing the article really hot is that the vast majority of people have absolutely no clue how rapidly AI is advancing at the moment. Deep learning systems are doing far more than you're aware of. Things like Watson is a pure deep learning system which most people entirely failed to grasp the relevance of. IBM beating a human at chess was regarded with more fanfair largely because I think most people simply saw Watson and broke it down as a computer doing database queries. Wow, welcome to 1970, right? Accurately applying non constrained parsed natural language is a monumental moment in AI. Jeopardy in particular was an excellent test as the show makes extensive use of word play such as innuendo and indirect hints. Just figuring out what's being asked is a task in itself. Consequently Watson has been able to apply this ability to begin consuming information in a variety of other fields. For instance one field IBM took it to was medicine. It's now already outperforming human doctors at diagnosis of some forms of cancer and being trialed in some of the preeminent cancer institutions in the world such as MD Anderson. It's nothing all that more complex than what it did on Jeopardy. It takes enormous volumes of information and accurately applies them in a given scenario. It just seems more impressive as the relevance becomes more clear. Another recent accomplishment came from Google. They developed a system that can play Atari games on a super-human level.   517f  Not exactly an accomplishment, right? In this case the only input the AI is receiving is the pixels from the games and its score. The rules, the controls, etc - none of these are told to it. It has to effectively teach itself how to play every single game it plays, and it's been unbelievably successful in doing so. There have also been enormous breakthroughs in computer vision and countless other fields as well which as we start meshing these with robotic systems.. well.. We're already seeing some of the major impacts of AI but they're not in your face yet. We'll likely see the first in-your-face example within 5 years. Completely automated vehicles will take a huge chunk out of the labor market. Uber's CEO has already stated he would like to buy Tesla's entire first run of pure automated vehicles. That's estimated at half a million vehicles in 2020. DHL has already stated they're investigating and plan on being the front lines of self driving vehicles. There will technology on a day to day basis like nothing ever before seen, and millions of jobs will be gone - all in the blink of an eye.