An old book "The Fifth Generation Fallacy" (Unger) addresses this somewhat. As I recall it speaks about the desire by the Japanese leadership of the time to bu

An old book "The Fifth Generation Fallacy" (Unger) addresses this somewhat. As I recall it speaks about the desire by the Japanese leadership of the time to build AI translation and related it to the challenge of full literacy in Japanese due to the requirement of learning 4 alphabets. Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji and Romanji.