Subject: Re: This is it folks, AI
Trust me, AI is in the Get Smart shoe phone stage of mobile phones (or the TRS-DOS phase o PC's). I use a number of them and have found their answers to rhym with the truth, but frequently to be completely wrong (Ex: I asked for a one-day walking tour of a Japanese city, with restaurant suggestions. It created a pretty good tour, but suggested restaurant which turned out to be in San Diego, Ca. when I looked up their reviews).

There are a number of ways to look at the potential fo rAI:

1) The depth and width of the "big data" that they have ingested

2) Their efficiancy and a way to acertain their confidence level in the answers they spew

3) How specialized they are

I can see a day when the AI you ask, in turn, asks spesciallized AI's to assist it in compiling their answer. Unfortunately, this compounds the probability of a less than perfect answer (like kids in a kindergarten playing "telephone").

AI's have only been generally availabled for a year or two and are far from mature. Saying they are mature is like saying a Model T is a mature automobile (or the Stanlley Steamer).

Jeff