Elon Musk and linguists say that AI is forcing us to confront the limits of human language

Both the arts and sciences are dissatisfied with verbal communication. To induce wonder, artists may forego language. To obtain knowledge, scientists often leave language behind. In his aptly titled essay "Science Has Outgrown the Human Mind and Its Limited Capacities," Ahmed Alkhateeb, a molecular cancer biologist at Harvard Medical School, suggests outsourcing research to artificial intelligence because "human minds simply cannot reconstruct highly complex natural phenomena efficiently enough in the age of big data." The problem is that language is a tool for the gathering of knowledge and appreciation of beauty by the whole society. Both the arts and sciences are dissatisfied with verbal communication. Scientists understand that language is a crude tool incapable of conveying abstract ideas. And to induce wonder, artists may forego language.