I understand how ML/AI works, and there are great things like collaborative filtering, self-driving whatevers, "expert systems" (IBM Watson), magical image processing (which just shows how much detail our own brains just imagines and fills in for us in non-ideal conditions).
I'm not saying it's not real AI, I'm saying I can't wait for the time when these separate components/models can be "synergized", when one big system can be trained for multiple tasks, and when it can train itself tasks.
What are computers good for? They are just replacing a calculator, which was just replacing some manual calculation machines, which were just replacing mental calculus.
A "naive translator's job" cannot translate arbitrary sentences for free and instantaneously. We are not far from real-time (and quality) translation that will make it possible to talk to somebody in a foreign language and have everything translated on the go (there's already a feature that replaces text in a foreign language in the image you're viewing).
I don't know :) I think I'm quite satisfied with the level of disruption ML is bringing to the world. And I feel people are constantly pushing away against this ("This is not real AI!") every time we start to understand how these things work.
Reinforcement Learning is the case of a program teaching itself (without training data or instructions) but I still, some will argue it is not AI because "it's just maths and engineering hacks", I guess.