6.2

Many of the articles that we studied were about the great promise of AI in different areas such as health-care, finance, customer service, transportation... you name it. A pattern that seems to repeat is that Google, IBM, Microsoft, or some of the other big players in the field have demonstrated a prototype product and the reporter is amazed by it. This tends to be combined with an estimate of the US or global market of the industry in question, which easily amounts to billions of euros.

The articles very rarely report anything about the actual techniques underlying the solutions, which is quite understandable since many readers wouldn't be able to digest any technical details. (You would!)

A few of the articles we reviewed contain statements about AI "reading millions of pages" and "comprehending them", but to be honest, we were actually expecting worse based on our Facebook feed. Perhaps the social media recommendations we get (based on our clicks! makes you wonder...) are of lower quality than what Google search can provide?