I believe that you are then referring to sentience in addition to intelligence? Artificial sentient being is another thing entirely, I think. And tougher nut to crack :)

You are right, but to solve most problems, do machines really HAVE to think like humans?

(can't answer you directly, so I'm doing it here)

My point was, that, for example, language recognition doesn't need human intelligence, a statistical model is enough.

Or driving around a confined space only requires a particle filter, not human intelligence.

For most problems, you don't need AI.