John Von Neuman spent the last few years of his life dedicated to this pursuit. This paper will briefly examine the current state of AI, its related and component fields, and some solutions to current limiting factors, which naturally leads to a proposal for a new AI system.
Intelligence is a fairly new idea.
Life has taken some 3.5 billion years to develop on Earth, and what we know of as intelligent life has only come onto the scene in the past few ten thousand years. If you were to look at how quickly humans have evolved in that time, the results are astounding. Hence the theory of many computational scientists is that breeding grounds for instruction sets, which define the characteristics of a computer as DNA defines the characteristics of a human, be developed where these instruction sets can replicate and in the process mutate. Over time, strong and viable instructions will result. Those instructions will begin combining into instruction sets, much as one celled creatures developed into multi-celled animals.