What Artificial Intelligence Still Can't Do

Today's artificial intelligence remains a long way from the supple, dynamic intelligence of AI ... [ ] characters from popular fiction, like The Jetsons. Modern artificial intelligence is capable of wonders. It can produce breathtaking original content: poetry, prose, images, music, human faces. Last year it produced a solution to the "protein folding problem," a grand challenge in biology that has stumped researchers for half a century. Yet today's AI still has fundamental limitations. Relative to what we would expect from a truly intelligent agent--relative to that original inspiration and benchmark for artificial intelligence, human cognition--AI has a long way to go. Critics like to point to these shortcomings as evidence that the pursuit of artificial intelligence is misguided or has failed.