Each time any of us uses a tool, such as GMail, where there’s a powerful agent to help correct our spellings, and suggest sentence endings, there’s an AI machine in the background, steadily getting better and better at understanding language. Sentence structures are parsed, word choices understood, idiom recognized.
That exact capability could in 2020 start our ability to speak with other large animals. Really. Faster than brain-computer interface will take the stage.
An article on this subject, co-authored with Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen, is to appear in Wired UK.