The author missed one recent example we think is worth noting - A Japanese AI program just wrote a short novel, and it almost won a literary prize
Can machines be creative? Recent successes in AI have shown that machines can now perform at human levels in many tasks that, just a few years ago, were considered to be decades away, like driving cars, understanding spoken language, and recognizing objects. But these are all tasks where we know what needs to be done, and the machine is just imitating us.