AI Assessment

AI has been around now for over 60 years. AI remains an opaque topic especially after Google’s neural network technology took the AI banner by suggesting a crucial breakthrough with ‘deep learning’ and OpenAI with ‘chat functionality’. Comparing the contributions of the genome to us sapiens against robotic agents and cyberspace agents reveal significant differences. These impact what AI applications are realistic. The singularity notion woke up two decades ago and triggers in the Silicon Valley again predictions about the fate of humanity. These need to be confronted and we provide arguments to neutralize these positions. Doable AI applications given the state of art (which need elaboration) are sketched. Appendices have problematic example exchanges with the 'chat'-systems and about advanced and speculative topics.