Getting back to the topic at hand, here are a few links to WikiPedia that discuss AI. Apparently you're partially right when you say the field is stalled. I guess it depends on if when you say AI you're referring to a computer that is self aware. According to WikiPedia, that field is stalled due to the complexities involved. However, AI is very much alive in the fields of handwriting recognition, text classification, etc. This is generally referred to as "Weak" AI (according to WikiPedia). "Weak" AI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence[^] Strong AI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI[^]