Why AI Will Never Fully Capture Human Language

The story begins with a short, pithy sentence: "It was nine seventeen in the morning, and the house was heavy." In clipped yet lyrical prose, the novel goes on to narrate a road trip from New York to New Orleans taken by six friends. The narrator of the novel is not one of the friends, however. It's the car itself: an artificial intelligence network on wheels equipped with a camera, a GPS, and a microphone. The various gadgets fed information into a laptop running AI software, then a printer spat out sentences--sometimes coherent, sometimes poetic--as the group glided south down the highway.