It's a nice notion but I've yet to see an existence proof that a machine can do that. It's not about just passing the Turing test and fooling humans, I'm sure that will happen, but I mean the more nuanced qualities of how the machine fails, how it is able to tweak and be more thoughtful of the situation. When NLP / smart text systems make a tiny mistake, it's quite egregious / silly and we can immediately detect it (but since the machine lacks knowledge of social constructs, physics of the world, idioms, and other idiosyncrasies that we have, it doesn't know what it doesn't know).
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I've yet to see an existence proof that a machine can do that
So you'll consider it impossible up to the point when such a machine exists?
Responding to humans using knowledge accumulated by organically living in a society for years, is different than generating a body of text.
No one says it is impossible.
It is more a question of whether our current efforts are enough to get us to the point.
Can we get to another galaxy? Probably, if we have enough resources and we discover enough to do it, and we actually go through with it. But it can seem unlikely, even given an unlimited amount of time.
Not to mention that we as a species may be facing a severe catastrophe in the future as a result of how we have populated this planet in the last 200 years. Hopefully we can avoid it, but once again are you sure?