The history of AI research doesn’t go that way. It tends to be about pushing computers to do things they currently can’t. Chess was once a major focus. Then an AI could beat a specific grandmaster in a six game match, and then any grandmaster, and then so good that no human stands a chance. Then it wasn’t really AI anymore, but a piece of software you can run on a laptop.

Getting to a machine that thinks at a human level is an asperational goal. One where we create a bunch of useful tools along the way.