Agree partially. Statistical inference is at the heart of language acquisition but language processing is far more complex. Semantics always existed though.

Agree partially. Statistical inference is at the heart of language acquisition but language processing is far more complex. Semantics always existed though. Long before we built computers, and long before we found out that computer programs and the hardware running them were somewhat limited in their ability to process language as fast and cleverly as our brains do. I look forward to the day this happens. In the meantime, I believe that the very nonsense that this nifty scribe puts out reminds us of how limited the automation of language still is.