NLP is great for many things, but, from my own experience as a NLP developer, machines are not even close to understand human language. They can interpret well

NLP is great for many things, but, from my own experience as a NLP developer, machines are not even close to understand human language. They can interpret well some kind of written speech, but they will struggle to grasp two humans speaking to each other. The progress we are make on building chatbots and vocal assistants is mainly due to the fact We are learning how to speaking to the machines, and not the contrary.