I&#x27;m very much with you on most of this, but to reply to this:<p>&gt; but do they need to understand our language?<p>Natural language is the highest-bandwidth means of communication available to us. It&#x27;s the easiest and most powerful method of conveying our intentions. That&#x27;s important for any kind of technology that we want to be able to serve us.<p>I agree that AI doesn&#x27;t need to be embodied in humanoid robots to be useful, but I think a robust understanding of our language is the ultimate user interface.