I'm looking for good examples of succesful AI projects and theories that had a relatively good impact on society, economics and military field.So many years have passed after the first AI researches; hence I'm wondering if it has really increased the quality of our lives.
Which is the most succesful AI project so far?
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I'd say the most successful are the ones so commonly used that we don't even notice them: The mail systems that automatically decipher handwritten addresses on your packages, they use machine vision and have probably been doing it since mid-90s.Algorithmic trading bots on stock markets - they handle something like 85% of all trades.Many modern CPUs use AI techniques, including neural networks, to guess what your program is going to do next and optimize branch prediction and memory fetches.Most good modern fraud and spam detectors use some combination of AI techniques (clustering, decision trees, SVMs, even some machine vision to check out attached pictures) - and, in the opposing BlackHat camp, the latest automatic CAPTCHA breakers use all the latest advancements in deep learning too).And of course there's Google, Facebook and US DoD who try to put AI into anything they can think of.  