Could a machine ever use and understand language the way people do?

Humans majorly use language to share information by writing or speaking, while another use case is of expressing feelings and emotions. Lady Lovelace’s objection that machines never do anything new has been a proven fallacy now as with advent of learning algorithms, machines can find better hidden patterns which are even difficult for humans to detect given some experiences of the past. Machines of today do not have any computational or storage restrictions which enable them to learn, think and act simultaneously like humans do with multiple modalities.

Language never had strict rules. It evolves with changing civilization, increasing diversity and ethnic beliefs. Creation of a new language requires elementary components and a community to carry it forward. Facebook Negotiation bots [1] are an example of machines creating and using their own language but interrupted in between. It demonstrates an ignorant attitude of humankind to some new kind of evolution which humans were not able to understand, analogous to how we even ignore two buffaloes talking on a farm.

People use grammar and word meanings along with the context of the situation in which some words are used. Machines too can understand various aspects of the language such as syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology, pragmatic, and discourse…