AI has achieved quite a bit
-Deployed speech dialog systems by firms like IBM, Dragon and Lernout&Hauspie
- Financial software, which is used by banks to scan credit card
transactions for unusual patterns that might signal fraud. One piece
of software is estimated to save banks $500 million annually.
- Applications of expert systems/case-based reasoning: a computerized Leukemia
diagnosis system did a better job checking for blood disorders than human
experts.
- Machine translation for Environment Canada: software developed in the 1970s
translated natural language weather forcasts between English and French.
Purportedly still in use.
- Deep Blue, the first computer to beat the human chess Grandmaster
- Physical design analysis programs,such as for buildings and highways.
- Fuzzy controllers in dishwashers, etc.