Linguistics for the Age of AI

I just started reading the book. 


There is already several ideas that I took for granted (fwiw), in my previous work like:

A) AI agents must be interactive, it reads as action-oriented in the book, quote:

> Our model of NLU does not require that agents exhaustively interpret every input to an externally imposed standard of perfection. Even  people  don’t do that. Instead, agents operating in human-agent teams need to understand inputs to the degree required to determine which goals, plans, and actions they should pursue as a result of NLU

B) The importance of explainable AI, quote:

> The importance of explainable AI cannot be overstated: society at large is unlikely to cede important decision-making in domains like health care or finance to machines that cannot explain their advice.

I highly recommend to read the introduction entitled 'Setting the Stage':

  https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/chapter-pdf/1891673/9780262363136_f000100.pdf

The whole book is open-access pdf available at:

  https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/5042/Linguistics-for-the-Age-of-AI