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In reply to the discussion: This is why we are not about to be replaced by robots [View all]Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)with some attention to grammar and syntax. It doesn't "speak" (nor understand) the language, and is easily tripped up by idioms, metaphors dialects and context. This is not likely to change due to the fact that languages are constantly evolving.
A fun little experiment is to take a single sentence in English, translate it to language x, then take that result and translate it to language y, then take that result and translate it to language z, then take that result and translate it back into English. A multilingual human would be able to render it back exactly, a computer can't.
"Space, the final frontier" translated to Italian, then to Danish, then to Latin, then back to English comes back as "Space, end".
For another take on this, I refer you to this thought experiment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room