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My editorial comment on this is that once a subject becomes practical, it becomes an entity in an of itself, distanced from ArtificialIntelligence. That and ArtificialIntelligence has been saying it'll have results in ten years for the last 20.
Another editorial comment: "There ain't no such thing as AI." Anything that is going to be recognized as "intelligent" won't be called "artificial". After all, do you drive to work in an artificial carriage or speak over an artificial voice-projecting unit (telephone)? Many times the AI researchers have met their goals, only to find that the goalposts have been moved further. Even the old-fashioned "Turing Test" contest has now been updated to require full audiovisual impersonation. (See [1] for some comments on the "Turing Test" and the changes.)
"Do you drive to work in an artificial carriage" - the movement is real, even though it is produced by artificial means. When you simulate a thunderstorm, nobody gets wet. Some people (eg Searle) claim that simulated intelligence is more like the latter than the former.
- Of course nobody gets wet in the simulation--the AI is smart enough to stay inside. (Unlike some humans. :-)
I think that AI is a marketing term. It has been used in the past to produce hype. The hype was used to get money for development projects.
The term 'intelligence' is not defined. Some say 'intelligence is what an IQ-test measures'. In this sense there is no AI because there is no program that one can test with an arbitrary IQ test (AFAIK).
AI usually tries to produce some spectacular ability. E.g. beat the world chess champion. This is to justify the hype produced. In this situation the inputs and the outputs are know. In between there is usually BruteForce?. It's the same with voice recognition.
Intelligence starts when neither the inputs nor the outputs are known. E.g. A system is intelligent if it can be taught a new game. It needn't play it well. But it is important that there are no restrictions to the type of playing materials (boards, cards, dices, ...) and rules and how the materials and rules are presented.