Wow, fascinating read. 1999 Would a monkey who knew the n-gram frequencies of the letters in English where n is large be able to produce credible English text?

Wow, fascinating read. 1999 Would a monkey who knew the n-gram frequencies of the letters in English where n is large be able to produce credible English text? Furthermore, does this monkey "know" English? If the N-gram monkey is behind one door and a human is behind the other, could a third-party observer tell which was the monkey? This question rings of the Turing test for artificial intelligence, to which there is no easy answer. No easy answer indeed!