Interstellar travel, if it is happening, is being done by robots.
That AI is possible. We don't understand intelligence. We don't. To presume we could recreate it is, at this point, wishful thinking.
And even giving you AI, they would have to decide that it's worth it.
Let me just straight up ask, what's the practical use? We're interested in interstellar travel because it's a way for us to expand our species. A completely artificial life form with an effectively eternal lifespan has no such concern.
I haven't bothered to read it, but it is available online:
http://www.hawking.org.uk/space-and-time-warps.html
I'm content to mostly limit my exposure to such topics to having my mind periodically blown by my adult sons, then fairly promptly forgetting most of what they said. Physics just isn't really my thing.
And yes, someone in a vessel traveling near-light speeds won't age all 4 of those years. But we do. It will be, for us, 8 years before someone hops to the next closest star and back.
Same with information from an unmanned probe. Even if we can beam it back at light speed, it will take years to get back here. And we're talking about going somewhere we know about.
In terms of exploration, forget it. Space is kind of infinite. Not knowing if there would be something when you get there is going to be a waste of years back here on Earth.