How advanced do you think AI will get in our lifetimes? Personally I think that we’re not even close. The best explanation of where we are with AI is the famous Turing test. If a program (that is able to receive and process instructions from humans, and respond in an intelligent way) can fool a human into believing it was a human, then we can say we’re at the beginning stages of AI.

If you don’t already know, a Turing test is a simple idea. You see the human (or people), ask them a series of questions, and if they answer, or respond in a way that doesn’t seem like a human (incomplete sentences, or a blank stare), then you know we’re not close. This isn’t a perfect test though. You need to know if the responses are human, and this could easily be faked. I’d love to believe we’re close, but I think it’s far too early to claim we’re on the road to true AI.