That man, Arthur C. Clarke, saw great things for mankind beyond the Y2K mark. Neither of his imaginings is close to becoming a reality. A Space Odyssey.
Computers can beat humans at the computationally intensive task of playing chess.
Despite a decidedly mixed track record, optimism about the prospects for machine intelligence still reigns at Carnegie-Mellon University, a longtime AI bastion. The assembled panel of experts was mostly true believers. The main debating point centered not on whether we are capable of gestating machines smarter than us but whether those machines will do our bidding or destroy us instead. No one entertained the idea that the truly intelligent cyborg might simply prove a bust. Remember that Nobelist Herbert Simon, a speaker at the conference, predicted in 1965 that machines would be capable of doing any work humans can do by 1985.