Empathic AI

We still have a ways to go before we get to a human equivalent artificial intelligence. You can tell we have a ways to go, because while there's plenty of furor and hype, even the experts are talking hypothetically. What the various prognosticators are really doing, right now, is revisiting the "what if" scenarios associated – scenarios that were imagined, described, and taken to their logical conclusion by science fiction writers thirty and forty years ago. We will know we're getting close to having a true AI when the experts can do more than just wave their hands. Of the two main paths to AI, I doubt the rules-based folks will get us there.