And when you think of all those Hollywood SF movies where the robot could reason and act quite well but in a tin-voice. How wrong they got it. We can simulate high quality voices but we can't have our reasoning, walking robots.
Depending on how you mean 'reasoning, walking robots' then not yet really.. but every few weeks or months another amazing deep learning/NN whatever thing comes out in different domains. So these types of techniques seem to have very broad application.
