Yes, I agree that current technologies in deployment are insufficient for many of the things described, especially language understanding. A few of my previous

Yes, I agree that current technologies in deployment are insufficient for many of the things described, especially language understanding. A few of my previous posts this year expressed skepticism of current tech in detail. I work in NLP/NLU and foresee some of future advances that will enable them. Moreover, BERT et al models that were just invented over the last 1-2 years may already allow the implementation of basic versions of these human language technologies. In many domains, they are on-par with humans in answering multiple-choice/span selection questions. See, for example: https://gluebenchmark.com/leaderboard https://gluebenchmark.com/leaderboard http://www.qizhexie.com/data/RACE_leaderboard.html http://www.qizhexie.com/data/RACE_leaderboard.html I also agree that technologies are not silver bullets. They are enablers/accelerators of improvement in process and efficiency that can increase human well-being.