Many chat bots display very human-like behaviour. Does that imply that the underlying technology will solve strong AI? Of course not. Such extrapolations are almost guaranteed to be incorrect. There have been some very eye opening articles recently about the limitations of deep neural networks which I highly recommend. AI is still an incredibly difficult problem and that is not going to change anytime soon. Deep neural networks are a decent step forward but we shouldn't get carried away.
Thank you. It's quite interesting, actually, how the easy-to-compute discriminative models can be fooled so easily, while they hypothesize that generative models (which are much more general, and closer to our best models of human cognition), despite being much slower, ultimately provide better performance at the boundaries of the classification region.
I'd go on to venture that our minds probably use discriminative models for "intuitive" judgements, while reasoning that can explain the variance in percepts uses generative models, thus obtaining better performance where necessary despite using more energy. Or possibly, the generative models can be used to train the intuitive discriminative ones, slowly allowing the less intensive part of the mind's processing to adjust its class boundaries to suit what's really known.
