I must have drank the cool aid because when I talk to my AI assistant, it bloody well understands me a lot better than my wife :D.

Machine translation still makes a few mistakes but hardly more than a human.

Machine vision: I worked on a factory where a machine would approve/reject products passing through at a ridiculously high speed, and it never got one wrong. This was 15 years ago.

Your experience is completely the opposite of mine.