You are very right. That's why I divide the world between Cognitive Psychology, which is "How intelligence really works" and Artificial Intelligence which is "

You are very right. That's why I divide the world between Cognitive Psychology, which is "How intelligence really works" and Artificial Intelligence which is "Replicating and improving intelligence with machines." The former is a very long drawn out field. (The research projects that the professor is talking about have been going on for 20+ years.) The latter is difficult. So far they can only tackle "Making useful things that don't represent how humans do it" or "Modeling how humans do things in a way too simple to be useful". The gaps between those are closing, but it seems like the field is actually pushing both boundaries in the opposite direction. We're making very useful things that look less and less human. (Think Google search) We're also understanding the human mind much better (Think connectionist models) but it's still hard to get them to produce real things. This isn't an awful thing. The field is still much better off than 20-40 years ago when it hyped universal general intelligence that could also be useful.