Functional Brain Anatomy for AIs
It is true that other species communicate, but we humans have used speech and language as a cornerstone of our organization and success as species, it is through language that knowledge is stored and our consciousness is often manifested in spoken inner words, in short speech and language are a big deal and today we will look at them from a systems point of view, a system that is already well on it’s way to being recreated in AI but also has some fundamental issues we haven’t quite figured out ( or maybe tried ).
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According to Donella Meadows ( of systems thinking fame ) if you want to start figuring out a system no matter how complex you should pay attention to what it produces, taking the stance of an alien that just met us we produce sounds that once received by another human convey or carry certain meaning, so a first pass at the speech/language system would look like this: