Gary Marcus, a prominent figure in AI, “is on a mission to instill a breath of fresh air to a discipline he sees as in danger of stagnating.” He offers 4 “needs” for Robust AI:

1. Use deep learning in conjunction with Classical AI by representing abstract knowledge, sentences or abstractions
2. Have large scale knowledge
3. Be able to reason about these things
4. Cognitive models — things inside our brain or inside of computers that tell us about the relations between the entities that we see around us in the world.  Link