http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A9pGhwQbS0 A video introduction on YouTube to the "Singularity Institute". 11 minutes. This is and a good lay person's explanation to some basic issues and terms used in Artificial Intelligence researched, where AI is compared to human intelligence, the latter which is still far superior as of mid 2010. But many AI researchers want to build AI systems which surpass human intelligence. See books by "Dreyfus" at UC Berkeley for counter-opinions about the likelihood that they can do it.