The Two Paths from Natural Language Processing to Artificial Intelligence – Intuition Machine

AI has accelerated in recent years, especially with deep learning, but current chatbots are an embarrassment. Their deficiency is disappointing because we want to interact with our world using natural language, and we want computers to read all of those documents out there so they can retrieve the best ones, answer our questions, and summarize what is new. To understand our language, computers need to know our world. They need to be able to answer questions like "Why does it only rain outside?" and "If a book is on a table, and you push the table, what happens?" We humans understand language in a way that is grounded in sensation and action. When someone says the word "chicken," we map that to our experience with chickens, and we can talk to each other because we have had similar experiences with chickens. This is how computers need to understand language.