What Happened to Artificial Intelligence

A Network World article on the state and direction of AI. Below are some of the statements at the time that led us to expect we could do lights-out corporate control. It did not happen. The included slide show is mostly about robotics, I guess because software AI is mostly hidden away.

" ... Stanford University computer science professor John McCarthy coined the phrase in 1956 to mean "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines," In the early years of the artificial intelligence movement, enthusiasm ran high and artificial intelligence pioneers made some bold predictions.

In 1965, artificial intelligence innovator Herbert Simon said that "machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do." ... '