Things are getting interesting in the world of pattern matching and data analysis.
But I still don't consider it "intelligent" by any stretch of the imagination.
It is often said that any sufficiently advanced technology will appear as magic to those who've never seen it before. I think we've got the same kind of blinders on when it comes to Artificial "Intelligence". We so desperately want something to be *right* and reliably *correct* in this world that we *need* these systems to be "intelligent" so *we* don't have to be...