On recent progress in artificial intelligence: "There's nothing that comes close to doing what a fish can do, let alone a cat.

Until recently, progress in artificial intelligence lagged so far behind computing technology that some in the field talked about an "A.I. winter," after commercial and government funding evaporated in the mid-1980's.

Super-human is one of the stages in classification of progress in artificial intelligence and denotes where an entity of artificial intelligence performs better than most humans do in a specific task.

"There is a lot of frustration in the lack of progress in artificial intelligence during the last 40 years," said J. Doyne Farmer, an artificial life researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, which studies complex organizations and biological and physical processes.