C3PO Will Have to Wait: Artificial Intelligence Today

Looking up "artificial intelligence," here's some of what I found:

"WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?"
by John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
"This article for the layman answers basic questions about artificial intelligence. The opinions expressed here are not all consensus opinion among researchers in AI."

"AAAI"!
or
"Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence"

"Science Daily: Artificial Intelligence News"
The start of a story from yesterday:
"Computer Interaction Gets Some Humanity
"February 8, 2008 — Human-computer interaction has not improved enormously since Mark Twain's time, when the typewriter was invented. A European research task force hopes to change that by making human-computer ... "