I said earlier that I found it disappointing, but I've realised now I'm talking about general uses of AI like talking and language. That I do think has a long way to go, especially when Silicon Valley assures us that general artificial intelligence is very close - I really don't see that at the moment. Anything where the AI has to generate things is just too varied.
However, I have just thought that more focused AI can actually be useful. I'm specifically thinking of image recognition, which has come a long way in the past couple of decades. I work on some projects where research attempts to apply image recognition to medical scans, aiding diagnosis by identifying possible abnormalities or diseases from scans. In these cases, I'm very optimistic about AI, because it is simply a very dedicated tool to assist you.
