I think we'll see human and machine languages get more alike in the future. We're already seeing a huge increase in the amount of nonfiction written and the le

I think we'll see human and machine languages get more alike in the future. We're already seeing a huge increase in the amount of nonfiction written and the level of literacy of the public. English spelling has become more standardized over the past couple centuries. We could say, humans must always communicate by grunting, because they are dumb animals. Or that speech recognition is impossible because machines lack a soul. Dykstra is brilliant, but he's also a curmudgeon who never likes anything.