This is exactly what previous generation AI in the 80's and 90's were criticized for: the systems built were too 'brittle'. They worked well for the narrow dom

This is exactly what previous generation AI in the 80's and 90's were criticized for: the systems built were too 'brittle'. They worked well for the narrow domains they were programmed for but they couldn't deal with novel situations and had no way to generalize. It is not clear we can engineer our way out of this by just adding new rules. Proponents of early symbolic AI systems (expert systems) said we just need to be patient and add more rules and at some critical point the system would reach the singularity. One such project has been going on for 34 years! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc