If an algorithm has "mastered natural language", I would expect it to be able to do some of the things language is for -- communicating information, receiving information, acting on the world... Not merely output something that statistically sounds like language.
Statistical mimicry is to language what a plastic toy picturing a bus is to public transportation innovation. It may look right, but it can't perform its function. A horse-drawn cart would be cruder, but could actually move people from A to B.
It's cargo-cult AI.
It's cargo-cult AI.
I'm looking forward to seeing AI agents that:
- Have a model of the world
- Assume others do too
- Use some form of language to update models on each side
... As well as many others things you use language for.
It doesn't matter if their syntax is terrible.
- Have a model of the world
- Assume others do too
- Use some form of language to update models on each side
... As well as many others things you use language for.
It doesn't matter if their syntax is terrible.
Much like an airplane, language has a function. No matter how realistic you make your image of a plane, if it misses the function, you still haven't mastered human flight. 
