The technologies that currently exist are examples of ANI ("artificial narrow intelligence" or weak AI[1]). The way you are using the term AI is in line with wh

The technologies that currently exist are examples of ANI ("artificial narrow intelligence" or weak AI[1]). The way you are using the term AI is in line with what is known as AGI ("artificial general intelligence" or strong AI[2]). Strong AI doesn't currently exist and, as far as we can tell, is still a fair way away. Some people believe that strong AI isn't even possible. So to answer your question directly, AI is a thing, but currently it is only the subset of AI called ANI. AGI is still over the horizon. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_AI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_AI [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...