People are working on it. Search for: artificial general intelligence. There was a book out last year called: "the master algorithm" that talked about it (the

People are working on it. Search for: artificial general intelligence. There was a book out last year called: "the master algorithm" that talked about it (the book is not that great). We all know about how well certain AI are doing now (neural nets etc), and historically there were high hopes for logic based systems (prolog) that are not as popular at the moment. Anyway, the author speaks of 4-6 different AI camps that are all separate (depending on definitions) and he believes that combining them together could result in gerenral AI. The book is a half decent review of some the less well known AI (that might be worth exploring) but it has the problem that it's too much info for the novice and not enough for a non AI CS person. He actually has code etc, can't remember the name of the system.