The future scenarios may be quite confused if the roadmap is the current one.
Today, AI is based on various forms of induction and deduction processes.
The concept of neural network has further expanded the spectrum of these processes, but has not altered the nature.
But one thing is missing in AI algorithms in my opinion: the abduction.
The abduction, then the passage from consequent to antecedent, is the process necessary for human beings to formulate a hypothesis about a fact never encountered before, so totally changing the framework of the hypothetical rule necessary to explain the fact.
In this case, it wouldn't be necessary to explain that I'm talking with a ... washing machine