What AI Will Never Be Able To Do

Will an AI system ever deliver a translation of aliterary text, say, that is not only accurate but also sensitive tomeaning, unless it has a genuine understanding of what the story isabout? But what would such understanding amount to? AIresearchers like to talk about “human-level” intelligence… Yet we don’t even knowwhat that means unless the system is conscious of itself; certainly itwon’t be attained simply by making systems excel at the imitation game. –