Verge's Report Card for AI in 2018

Nicely put piece in the Verge gives it a B grade.   Refers to some its own writing.  Not enough about how internal company work is improving efficiency and thus resource use.  And also not much about the resulting change in labor needs for specific industries. Or about how the very definition of AI influences how it is with used with other 'Automation'.    And yes:   Its still not magic.   Or  even very creative yet.  Still a very good read:

The Verge 2018 tech report card: AI   By James Vincent   @jjvincent

As for much of the tech industry, 2018 has been a year of reckoning for artificial intelligence. As AI systems have been integrated into more products and services, the technology’s shortcomings have become clearer. Researchers, companies, and the general public have all begun to grapple more with the limitations of AI and its adverse effects, asking important questions like: how is this technology being used, and for whose benefit? ... 

Looking over the year as a whole one lesson stands out: AI is not magic. It is not a two-letter incantation that can be used to summon venture capital and institutional confidence at a whim; nor is it fairy dust that can be sprinkled over products and institutions for instant improvements. Artificial intelligence is a process: something to be examined, deliberated, and — if all goes well — understood. In other words, long may the reckoning continue.