Re: Just as far away as before
You take what was already old when I studied it 30 years ago. You add a trillion times as much computing power, a trillion times as much data storage, and a trillion times as much human entered data over the last several decades to draw on, and we still have nothing anywhere close to real artificial intelligence. Some interesting advances in data processing etc. Some clever seeming demonstrations. But nothing even anywhere close to actual artificial intelligence. Fusion power too cheap to be metered is much closer to reality. Flying cars are even closer to reality. IMHO. Not that we shouldn't be very worried about what we have managed to slowly come up with and much much more importantly what uses it is is being put to... Realistically we should be thankful it is so difficult because are we anywhere near ready for the real thing? Like I've said before it will be a choice between a ride on the Axiom from WALLE where AI decides what is best for us, or Idiocracy where we decide what is best for us. Or else Terminator where AI decides we need to be eliminated, which is frankly arguable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA