This is very neat. Besides this site and these results (updated till 2006):<p><a href="http://www.foundalis.com/res/solvprog.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.foundalis.com/res/solvprog.htm</a><p>Anyone know if since then, say using deep learning or other newer methods, these problems are solvable easier?<p>I like the idea behind this, perhaps being able to solve these would be a stepping stone before solving the Turing test. And I think this kind of stuff points to developing a general AI.<p>The background of this is very interesting. The author of this research has stopped working on the problem for ethical reasons:<p><a href="http://www.foundalis.com/soc/why_no_more_Bongard.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.foundalis.com/soc/why_no_more_Bongard.html</a><p>"If this is achieved, eventually intelligent weapons of mass destruction will be built, without doubt. That’s what I would like to explain below."<p>I don't want to comment on that or qualify it in any way (I do have some thoughts about it, but would rather not share them). Will just say it was an interesting find.<p>Also learned about Mikhail Bongard, a Soviet machine learning researcher from the 60s-70s -- <a href="http://www.foundalis.com/res/Mikhail_Moiseevich_Bongard.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.foundalis.com/res/Mikhail_Moiseevich_Bongard.html</a> for some reason I imagined that part of the world simply did not have any background or interest in that discipline at that time, so it is interesting to learn something new there too.