There are many people noodling around with some implementation or another of Stephenson's "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer". [1] [2] [3] [4] There is indeed an

There are many people noodling around with some implementation or another of Stephenson's "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer". [1] [2] [3] [4] There is indeed an XPRIZE that directly acknowledges the influence of Stephenson's vision. [5] This article contributes to that ongoing, healthy mania to create such a tool by identifying some of the hard AI problems that need to be solved to realize the tool. I think Stephenson side-stepped some of the identified hard AI problems by indicating the visualized primer was designed towards children and teens in mind with a pre-configured topic "curriculum" (addresses some of Navigating a Semantic Graph and Knowledge Ingestion Engine), and the original primer used "ractors", professional actors who voiced and emoted avatars in the primer with appropriate cues from the primer on what to say, etc. (addresses Natural Language Understanding and Natural Language Generation). [1] http://proto-knowledge.blogspot.com/2011/11/building-young-ladys-illustrated-primer.html http://proto-knowledge.blogspot.com/2011/11/building-young-l... [2] https://medium.com/message/the-kindle-wink-4f61cd5c84c5#.1bxexf3ac https://medium.com/message/the-kindle-wink-4f61cd5c84c5#.1bx... [3] https://www.quora.com/Who-is-making-Primers-inspired-by-the-Young-Ladys-Illustrated-Primer https://www.quora.com/Who-is-making-Primers-inspired-by-the-... [4] http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/08/the-young-ladys-illustrated-primer.html http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/08/the... [5] http://forum.xprize.org/t/a-young-ladys-illustrated-primer/308/4 http://forum.xprize.org/t/a-young-ladys-illustrated-primer/3...