It’s very easy to misread and overestimate achievements in artificial intelligence. And nowhere is this more evident than in the domain of human language, where appearances can falsely hint at in-depth capabilities.
In the last two years, we’ve seen several companies giving the impression that their chatbots, robots and other applications can engage in meaningful conversations as a human would.
You just need to look at Google’s Duplex, Hanson Robotics’ Sophia and numerous other stories to become convinced that we’ve reached a stage that artificial intelligence can manifest human behavior.
But mastering human language requires much more than replicating human-like voices or producing well-formed sentences. It requires commonsense, understanding of context and creativity, none of which current AI trends possess. Here is an this article, a recent reality check about AI grasp's on human language.
