> Is this true or is there just a massive gulf in application at the moment?
It is only true if you drink the cool aid.
Speech recognition - Siri still have major issues undestanding me. Youtube text2speech routinely mistranscribes because it simply have no understanding of the language.
Machine translation is hilarious at best and dangerously wrong at worst.
Machine vision still could not spot the difference between pastry and furry animals last time I checked.
All of these are examples of non-working over hyped tech. It is not a list of "basically" solved problems.
It is only true if you drink the cool aid.
Speech recognition - Siri still have major issues undestanding me. Youtube text2speech routinely mistranscribes because it simply have no understanding of the language.
Machine translation is hilarious at best and dangerously wrong at worst.
Machine vision still could not spot the difference between pastry and furry animals last time I checked.
All of these are examples of non-working over hyped tech. It is not a list of "basically" solved problems.