How far has science come in the creation of artificial intelligence? (AI)?

Question

How far has science come in the creation of artificial intelligence? (AI)?

Answer 1

Clearly very far! It appears as if all natural intelligence has disappeared from this world and people are just naturally stupid these days...

Answer 2

Not very far.

It's one of the domains that kept to be "the major breakthrough in the next 5 years" over the last 40 years or so.

It has seen some major progress in many closely related domains. Image and voice recognition has moved in huge strides ahead. OCR is finally reliable and useful. Neural networks are still a big hope but unable to get 'there' yet and while still useful for different tasks, they don't provide the functionality of a brain. Chatterbots (programs meant to simulate a human on online chats) are quite believable already - as for simulating humans with IQ of 70 or less (they are still awfully stupid.). Expert systems (like chess programs) see constant progress and chess software precisely have already surpassed human skill recently. (as for poker, there are no human winners in online casinos. It's bots the players set up against each other that get the stash). But these are all branch domains. There are also interesting logical programs like ones that develop mathematical proofs to theorems or drive a robotic cockroach in a way so realistic that real cockroaches follow it.

If you mean AI as a system that is self-aware, capable of autonomous learning and learning new techniques of learning, still, a major breakthrough is expected to occur 5 years from now.