Poker AI

[PairTheBoard]

I'm curious what people here might know about the current state of the art in Poker Artificial Intelligence programs. It seems to me that this is the biggest long term threat to online poker. Automating the interphase with the online poker site's software might require some specialized work on the installed code. But that aside, I can't help but think current state of the art poker AI programs could easily beat nearly all the games played online by humans. I doubt the sites themselves would want to be running such BOTs, but what's stopping ambitious gamers from plugging them into their Online play?

Anyone know the word going around on this?