Has AI Lived up to its Hype?

I say No and Yes.   No because it cannot live up to the implied magic of the term AI.   People still expect it to do far more than it can do currently.   I hear the equivalent of: " .. But of course AI could do that.."  Without backing that up.    And I say Yes because it can do far more than what we expected in the 90s ... and actually doing magic that we did not expect it could ever do.     But even these abilities have come with unintended consequences we had not thought of.   Some producing considerable risk for those that trust the algorithms.     All this is not much different from computing in general.   It can all be written into science fiction,  but the further editing into practice can be difficult. 

Has artificial intelligence (AI) really lived up to the hype?
Nikolas Kairinos, CEO and Founder, Fountech discusses how far artificial intelligence (AI) has come over the years and whether it has lived up to the hype surrounding it

Regardless of the industry you work in, you’ve no doubt heard about artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential in changing the world around us. The technology has been a source of debate in the private and public sectors for more than 50 years, and yet it has only been in the last decade that we’ve begun to really see momentum build in the AI space.  ... "