A.I. has helped chatbots carry on conversations almost indistinguishable from human interaction. It has solved problems that have confounded scientists for decades like predicting protein shapes. And it has blurred the lines of creativity: writing music, producing art and generating videos.

Why was this article written now?? This is the only paragraph that substantially marks it as post-2016. For such a key paragraph, I think it's rather too sloppy: eg just one more example of reporters/DeepMind transforming AlphaFold's useful two-thirds accuracy rate into the culminating solution of an age-old problem.