Machines are now good or excellent at arithmetic, chess, mathematical theorem proving, stock picking, image captioning, driving, arcade game playing, Go, speech synthesis, speech transcription, translation and cancer diagnosis, but some critics will scornfully scoff “Sure—but that’s not real intelligence!” They might go on to argue that real intelligence involves only the mountaintops in Moravec’s landscape (figure 2.2) that haven’t yet been submerged, just as some people in the past used to argue that image captioning and Go should count—while the water kept rising.
