Will AI ever live up to its hype?

IT’S A little hard to believe that just over a year ago, a group of leading researchers asked for a six-month pause in the development of larger systems of artificial intelligence (AI), fearing that the systems would become too powerful. “Should we risk loss of control of our civilisation?” they asked.

There was no pause.

But now, a year later, the question isn’t really whether AI is too smart and will take over the world. It’s whether AI is too stupid and unreliable to be useful.