[bashinator]

back to the actual topic, I suppose8 it could be done today. (If you're gonna say, 'just wait til our benevolent omnipotent robot overlords show up' then I encourage you to sukkit.) But if you're going to replace human teaches, then you need your computer-aided learning program to know that I (for example)

\ find graphics challenging, but narrative is easy to keep track of.

\* remember events and experiences well, not so much facts and figures.

\* get unproductively competitive over desirable assignments.

And so forth x1,000,000. This is all the stuff that gets glossed over by strong AI proponents, and I think pushes it way out into the 2-300 year timespan the way we're going now.

I think that strong AI most likely to be a materials science breakthrough.