I should have expected to see a bunch of blather about AI overpromising and underdelivering. Nevermind the fact that Expert systems such as the descendants of Mycin and DART have been making billions of dollars in profits for decades when applied in specialized domains like logistics and health diagnostics. Nevermind the fact that we can't go a week on HN without seeing an article gushing about driverless cars. Nevermind the fact that mass production of everything from cars to toothbrushes is impossible/infeasible without it. Nevermind the fact that nearly all forms and modes of mass transportation are scheduled using algorithms developed in AI research. Nevermind the fact that you can actually use email, thanks to the AI research underpinning spam filtering. Nevermind the fact that computers have beat the best humans in some of the most well known games of strategy and trivia. Nevermind the fact that one of today's largest corporations, Google, makes nearly all of its profit from a single application of AI.

No. AI is just making a bunch of ridiculous promises that it never intends to keep...solely because general intelligence isn't f*ing Skynet yet and because Siri can't tell the difference between Ichiro and Itchy Euro.