The author is uninformed and wrong. The hype wave propagates faster than the utility wave, but if you believe there was no lightning just because you haven't he

The author is uninformed and wrong. The hype wave propagates faster than the utility wave, but if you believe there was no lightning just because you haven't heard the thunder yet you will be sorely mistaken. Function approximation for classification tasks is slowly but surely "eating the world." Planning and sequential decision making based on RL are being hybridized with classical control methods for demonstrated utility. Reasoning, rapid learning, and useful adaptation are being attacked in hundreds of research papers a month. Remember that technologies don't arrive they go through a phase transition of "That's not real X" to "That's obvious and boring." with almost nothing in the middle. Whether you want to call all the above "AI" is irrelevant. Tasks which were recently assumed to require humans have been shown to be tractable with other methods.