Artificial intelligence isn’t a game changer: opinion

An employee walks past signage displayed inside Iflytek Co.'s regional headquarters in Guangzhou, China, on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017. Iflytek, which specializes in voice recognition, is collaborating with Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Holdings Ltd. on a network of health centers that will rely partly on artificial intelligence for diagnosis and treatment. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

Not much time passes these days between so-called major advancements in artificial intelligence. Yet researchers are not much closer than they were decades ago to the big goal: actually replicating human intelligence. 

That’s the most surprising revelation by a team of eminent scholars who just released the first in what is meant to be a series of annual reports on the state of AI.