Elon keeps warning the world about the impending hyperintelligent AI that will retool human economies, politics, and religions, yet year after year his cobbled-together AI fails at basic object detection.
AI is a bogus term. It was well-discredited in the 1980s and has gone through an ill-deserved rehabilitation. Deep neural nets are a step forward for some tasks like vision, but are still just scratching the surface of what really goes on in our brains when sense-making from visual data.
I'm split over this. On one hand The AI is so incompetent that it could never take over the world and enslave humanity. On the other, its so incompetent that it winds up killing humans anyway. lose-lose.