As someone who is trying very hard to keep up with the latest improvements in machine learning and artificial intelligence, I see very little evidence to say we

As someone who is trying very hard to keep up with the latest improvements in machine learning and artificial intelligence, I see very little evidence to say we have made strides in reasoning on the level of a human intellect. Machine learning is still unfortunately limited to very specific tasks. Even though the means through which those tasks are accomplished may be very general (neural networks, Bayesian statistics, etc...) the end result is still very limited. Let's not fool ourselves with how far along the technology is and instead embrace it for what it is.