Absolutely. After all, we're talking about making a machine "intelligent/human" to some extent...I just hope they remember an 'off switch' for when it all goes Terminator on us.Yeah Matski thats one essential step.
But I fear its one among a hundred others all of which require a fundamental change in the way computers operate.
To put that into perspective, computers are still operating on the Turing Machine principle, which was first described in 1936.