Closing the Gap between Machine Learning and Human Learning

Humans possess a powerful ability to reason. They understand a question asked by a fellow human-being and provide the most appropriate answer to it. A human brain can do quick mathematics to answer a trivial question like "If I have 10 balls and bought two cans, each having 5 balls, how many balls would I have?" The humans can do commonsense reasoning like "If a driver sees a pedestrian on the crossover, what would he do?" Humans have intelligence in understanding if somebody is cutting a joke and probably get a deeper understanding of what the speaker really wants to say? The question is, can we train the machines to gain this kind of intelligence that we humans possess?