Smart machines have been a promise of Computer Science for a while now. These days though I often find myself lost around what has actually been achieved.<p>Which problems have been solved, where has meaningful progress been made, and what do we desire but still seems far off?<p>Would someone care to start with an overview?
AI is not an explicit subject like math and physics, which has solid principles. It's just about searching for a way of providing the machines an ability to "think", whatever the way you choose.<p>Different people understand the word "think" differently. Eg, for most people, AI is about algorithms, while for me, it is about recreating a human brain.<p>So, an overview is too complicated and multifarious, at least for me.
I recall a discussion on HN [1] were a worm had been simulated, which might be a step forward to the long road of recreating a human brain as zuckmitnick mentions.<p>[1] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4208454" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4208454</a>