Before reading any further. I ask yous to think creatively on this subject.
I was in shower and was pondering over A.I. (Strong A.I. both at human level and beyond human level) as I do from time to time and a quote from Neil deGrasse Tyson saying that math is the language of the universe (for us humans it is anyway) popped into my head.
Now I haven't found any articles or anything on the subject of perhaps trying to represent natural languages as math. A simple example would be to simply transform, let's say, this sentence I'm writing into a math formula.
Perhaps an A.I. can create it's own way to describe things with math, feelings, meanings, creativity, instead of using our clumsy languages. Then it truly would be the language of the universe.
Now, I am primarily a programmer. So I am asking you smart people, would this be possible? Please share your thoughts on the matter!
This is either trivial or hugely difficult, depending on exactly what it means to "represent" a language "as math". In both directions it seems like you should know more about this than we do.
I mean as I type this various English words are being represented as sequences of integers inside this machine - is that "representing" English "as math"?
On the other hand, using math to do anything interesting with a natural language, even just parsing it correctly, is hugely difficult (and again something someone would expect a programmer to know more about than a mathematician).
Probably you should ask Siri her opinion - I gather she's an expert on exactly this question...