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Artificial Intelligence (AI) - latest craze or disruptive technology?

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) - latest craze or disruptive technology?  I t seems everywhere in the media people are talking about AI and how it's going to take over everything. They say once we hear something around 6 times from difference sources we start to believe it's true.  What is AI? The dictionary defines AI as: " the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. " From this point of view we have already been using many AI systems for years and they are already part of our daily lives. Speech recognition tools such as Alexa  are finally starting to become useful in a limited set of circumstances and people have been successfully using Google Translate to obtain rough (read as literal) translations for a number of years. AI Limitations The interesting thing about all AI currently is