The main theme of the article for me is the discrepancies between marketing (shiny cable news segments and social media) and real, dirty-hands research and deve

The main theme of the article for me is the discrepancies between marketing (shiny cable news segments and social media) and real, dirty-hands research and development. They are completely out of sync. I am studying Comp Ling and one of the first understandings you develop is that Natural Language Processing through neural networks can achieve a level of accuracy and efficiency (which is pretty high), but eventual limitations occur where improvement is impossible. And perfection is certainly an impossibility.