Searle first proposed the Chinese room experiment in 1980. At the time, artificial intelligence researchers, who have always been prone to mood swings, were cocky. Some claimed that machines would soon pass the Turing test, a means of determining whether a machine "thinks." Computer pioneer Alan Turing proposed in 1950 that questions be fed to a machine and a human. If we cannot distinguish the machine's answers from the human's, then we must grant that the machine does indeed think.

"Researchers used machine learning to create the first large-scale, data-driven study to illuminate how culture affects the meanings of words." Human language does great injustice in representing the mysterious capabilities of the brain. Nevertheless, it serves as an inexpensive yardstick to measure thoughts and intelligence. If this is remotely true and if we are serious about our pursuits of AGI then it is almost inevitable to end up with natural language processing. But, how well have we understood the language itself?