What AI Will Never Be Able To Do

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