For many people, artificial intelligence (“AI”) is HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, KIT from Knight Rider, Data from Star Trek, or Haley Joel Osment from (appropriately) A.I. Artificial Intelligence. In light of this image, AI is frequently relegated to the science fiction section of Netflix and forgotten.
http://www.nhbar.org/uploads/pdf/BJ-Winter2012-Vol52-No4-Pg6.pdf
NPR Radio interview
http://nhpr.org/post/siri-v-everyone-else