While milestones are being made in what is referred to as narrow AI, machines that can accomplish certain tasks on their own, strong AI has yet to be reached and that will really be the goal of the future.
The article by Rick Foreman goes into what properties are required to achieve strong AI, as opposed to narrow AI. They include "the ability to reason, strategize and make judgments under uncertain conditions, represent knowledge including knowledge that is categorized as common sense, plan and learn, communicate in a natural language and integrate all the above skills." This goal is a ways from being possible.
Some of the lecture topics at the Dartmouth AI Conference: the New Fifty Years included topics covering The Future of AI such as "Intelligence and Bodies" by Rod Brooks, "Intelligent Medical Image Analysis: Computer Assisted Surgery and Disease Monitoring" by Eric Grimson, "Constructing, Selecting and Repairing Representations of Knowledge" by Alan Bundy, "The Challenge and Promise of Automated Reasoning" by Bart Selman, and "Why We Can Be Confident of Turing Test Capability Within a Quarter Century" by Ray Kurzweil (Dartmouth).