Toward human level machine intelligence - is it achievable?

Achievement of human level machine intelligence has long been one of the basic objectives of AI. Officially, AI was born in 1956. Since then, very impressive progress has been made in many areas—but not in the realm of human level machine intelligence. Anyone who has been forced to use a dumb automated customer service system will readily agree. The Turing test lies far beyond. Today, no machine can pass the Turing test and none is likely to do so in the foreseeable future.