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It seems to me though that there is a continuum between "multi-channel interactive semi-declarative rule engine" (Frankly, the continuum probably starts back in oldschool IRC bots and expert systems) and "strong AI", wherein the bulk of the value, for me at least, is on the former side of that scale.

The vast majority of the pragmatic functionality I'd use on a day to day basis could probably be built by someone with the willingness to learn about the systems involved, no rocket science or all of humanities ML required :) (I certainly didn't know about anything from scraping to relay control to information retrieval at the start of my pet project)

I guess why I'm saying this is to address yours and some other child comments that seemed more dismissive of the idea due to the complexity (Responded to yours largely because you had gone through the steps of "try it yourself" which I see as the crux of all of this). To the op, Try it! What does it matter if it's out of your grasp. Learn new shit. Realize the extents of your knowledge, and in the process, push them a bit further. If you fail, I would be hesitant to ever call it failure if you even learned a little; I can't tell you the number of pipe dream impossible projects (microkernels, distributed OSes, rewriting AML on my own platform, etc) I've taken on, and despite failing at many of them, the learnings were well worth the time, not to mention the once in a while surprising success at someone you thought was out of your reach.