>> Making a chatbot that can understand the variety of human speech, translate it to text, understand it and respond intelligently > Speech to text is mostly s

>> Making a chatbot that can understand the variety of human speech, translate it to text, understand it and respond intelligently > Speech to text is mostly solved at this point. You are talking about mapping sound patterns to words. The parent is talking about understanding what the words actually mean. Those are very, very different things. We are nowhere near having a computer program that actually understands arbitrary language anywhere close to a human level. Duplex is a clear example of how far we have to go. They struggle to build a program that can operate effectively in a single, incredibly constrained domain.