Are they going to build fancy androids with sophisticated nervous systems?
Human language is the product of embodied things that walk around on the surface of a big spheroid, at the bottom of a gravity well. Words point to things in the world, as well as at each other in a network.
You can't fully comprehend language by only examining relationships between words. A system that understands human language must be able to hear and see and pick things up, and feel the inertial mass of objects smacking it upside the head.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
