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Why are Linguistics and NLU so important? Precisely because they are one of the means by which we learn something about the world, form and transmit our mental models to other human beings. To think of an AGI that doesn't really know how to *read* (in addition to understanding other multimodal inputs) is to limit our own human ability t…
Why are Linguistics and NLU so important? Precisely because they are one of the means by which we learn something about the world, form and transmit our mental models to other human beings. To think of an AGI that doesn't really know how to *read* (in addition to understanding other multimodal inputs) is to limit our own human ability to create. We learn not only through sensory experiences, but also through the cognitive models we receive from parents, school, society and culture. How to create explicit (symbolic) models that can serve as input for deep learning processes should be our research focus at this time. So, expecting advances of neuro-symbolic architectures.