Denotation, Connotation, Transcendence, and Translation
The humanities are of great significance for all the themes explored in this book, and this chapter will document the fact that the forms of artificial intelligence being developed today lack the ability to interpret language as human beings can, especially erudite humanistic scholars. Among the most active areas often considered artificial intelligence is natural language processing, in which “natural” specifies the topic as human languages, rather than, for example, computer programming languages.1 However, natural languages might be defined to include bird songs and wolf howls, predating by many millions of years the evolution of the human species. The current use of speech ...
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