How Fast Is AI Progressing? Stanford's New Report Card for Artificial Intelligence

This is probably the question that futurists, AI experts, and even people with a keen interest in technology dread the most. It has proved famously difficult to predict when new developments in AI will take place. The scientists at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence in 1956 thought that perhaps two months would be enough to make "significant advances" in a whole range of complex problems, including computers that can understand language, improve themselves, and even understand abstract concepts. Sixty years later, and these problems are not yet solved. The AI Index, from Stanford, is an attempt to measure how much progress has been made in artificial intelligence.