20/03/2026
AI learned language without anyone telling it what a single word means.
No dictionary. No labels. No teacher.
Just billions of sentences and one instruction: figure it out.
In 1957, linguist J.R. Firth wrote —
"You shall know a word by the company it keeps."
In 2013, Word2Vec turned that into an algorithm.
The result?
Sachin ended up near Kohli.
GST ended up near tax.
Nobody programmed that.
It just... noticed.
The uncomfortable part —
it still doesn't know what words mean.
It just got very good at pretending.
Does that count as understanding?
EP 03 — Explainable by Neural Networking Systems Research Labs.
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