[atty]

As someone who works in the field, if your only conception of AI is a truly sentient intelligence, then yes, we are, as far as I can tell, nowhere near that. However, if by AI, you mean the use of sub domains of AI like machine learning or deep learning (where all the money has been spent), it’s quite literally all around us now, whether you realize it or not. At my company our deployment of “AI” techniques is ramping up year over year, not slowing down, and we’re seeing very good results. (And I work at a very old company, not a tech native. I can only imagine how much of Google’s or Facebook’s workflows and products include some sort of machine learning)