Sometimes I worry that there are certain computational tasks which simultaneously require one human mind to encompass a large portion of their structure while t

Sometimes I worry that there are certain computational tasks which simultaneously require one human mind to encompass a large portion of their structure while that structure is too large to fit into a human mind, or too large to work with on a practical basis. You know, a "kernel of functionality" that can't be compartmentalized between multiple developers but still has to scale to a truly massive size to perform the desired task. I worry strong AI is such a task. I also worry there's a barrier somewhere in conversational computing that will stop us from achieving much past a certain threshold before the framework becomes unworkable. I often run into painful reminders that our voice assistants are just Chinese rooms when it turns out they're missing basic functionality like "take me to the McDonald's near the Walmart".