Comment by Nullabillity

All of those are incredibly vague. I'm no astronomer, but I'd hazard a guess that it's "solving astronomy" about as well as it's "solving programming" or "solving mathematics". (That is, it isn't. Outside of a few grifters' imaginations, anyway.)

But sure, let's talk about a few of the more egregious ones.

> Scanning documents into text (OCR).

Useless for old texts, since you still need to review the transcriptions (and the "smarter" the transcription engine is, the harder review becomes since the errors look more plausible).

Useless for new texts, just type them in a readable format instead.

> Translation.

Heh.

> Voice recognition.

Useless. Do you really want more IVR menus?

> Detecting fraud.

Illegal unless you can explain your reasoning (tip: you can't, or you wouldn't be using "AI" in the first place).