[tossaway322]

aryehof asks>"Has AI advanced from the 1990s?"

No.

But lots of progress in pattern recognition & classification. So whatever AI exists can see better, hear better, speak better.

Unfortunately nothing remotely approaching the intelligence of a cat or dog, much less a human being, has appeared except in very limited domains.

[AlexCoventry]

  nothing remotely approaching the intelligence of a cat or 
  dog, much less a human being, has appeared except in very 
  limited domains.

Even machines with the intelligence of a fruit fly or lizard are useful, if you can industrialize the application of them. That is essentially how Alpha Go works.