Is this a hotdog? What it takes for an AI to answer that might surprise you

Don't boil the ocean

Artificial intelligence isn't going away. Even if the hype abates its presence will have succeeded in raising awareness of a smorgasbord of interlinking concepts, technologies and ideas - neural networks and machine learning, cognitive intelligence, recommendation engines, big data, statistics and analysis - that together let computers and software do more of the thinking and acting for us."