I strongly believe that what you don't want for an AI is for it to make the same mistakes and have the same weaknesses as humans. For instance, people will nev

I strongly believe that what you don't want for an AI is for it to make the same mistakes and have the same weaknesses as humans. For instance, people will never accept that the AI of a car kills by accident, even thought human drivers kill a lot more etc. A system that makes life-or-death decisions but has no liability nor ethics is difficult to accept. The article talks about expectations - unrealistic expectations even. People expect from AI that it makes clever decisions like humans and "no mistakes" like machines (scare quotes for bugs, failures etc.). Now, I don't suggest that DL is useless. It is good at what it does, but contrary to what OP suggests, I don't see it as the sole or even main component of an AI system.